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

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

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.

Ryan McGinley

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

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.

Len Wein

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

Len Wein

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Len Wein

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Terry Tempest Williams

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

Jonathan Lethem

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

Chris Abani

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

David Douglas

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

Ralph Fiennes

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

John Motson

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

John Maynard Keynes

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

Atsushi Nakajima

It probably won't happen, but there's always the possibility of unexpected consequences.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Daniel Handler

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Timothy Leary

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...