Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Seymour

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

John Polkinghorne

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Lucas Neff

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Rufus Sewell

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

David Travis

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.

David Travis

For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

David Hockney

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

David Hockney

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

David Hockney

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

David Hockney

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

David Hockney

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

David Hockney

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

David Hockney

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

Noel Redding

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

Carol Vorderman

Change is one of my favourite words.

Virat Kohli

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

David Miliband

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

Andie MacDowell

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

Ang Lee

San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.

Megan Gallagher

I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.