Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Mraz

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

Harrison Birtwistle

I'm not an architectural composer.

Anton Seidl

Composers are not all good conductors.

Robert Moog

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show

J. M. Roberts

This is catch, photo and release. It couldn't be easier.

Diane Arbus

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

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.

Tupac Shakur

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

Helmut Newton

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.

Helmut Newton

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Helmut Newton

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Helmut Newton

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.