Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kruger

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Arthur Miller

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

Janet Malcolm

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Diane Arbus

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

Diane Arbus

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.

Edward Abbey

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Alfred Stieglitz

The fight for photography became my life.

Chuck Close

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

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.

Michael Phelps

If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.

Paula Abdul

All you can do is the best you can do.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

Grace Slick

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

Harvey Pekar

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

William Goldman

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

William Penn

Let us see what love can do.

Gary Clark, Jr.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

Caroline Wozniacki

I do my best, and that's all I can do.