Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Arbus

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Alfred Stieglitz

The fight for photography became my life.

Chuck Close

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

John Sexton

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

Michelangelo Antonioni

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

Jeffrey Pierce

The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

Francis Bacon

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know...

George Eastman

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Frankie Valli

The way the lyric, ?you're just too good to be true I can't take my eyes off you.? It's just magical.

Cam Newton

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

Anthony Trollope

But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

Daniel Goleman

Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing, imagining some terrible tragedy. Worries are almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not its eye - that is, in words, not images - a fact that has significance for controlling worry.

Daniel Handler

When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

Craig Ferguson

Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

Brian Eno

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Esther Hicks

In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process.

Faith Evans

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Fernando Pessoa

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

Helen Keller

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Helen Keller

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Helen Keller

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

Helen Keller

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.