Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Umberto Eco

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Robert Capa

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Robert Capa

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Robert Capa

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

Robert Capa

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

James Russell Lowell

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

John Cheever

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

Northrop Frye

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.

Northrop Frye

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Norman Maclean

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.