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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Bible Bible

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Robert Burton

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

Robin McKinley

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Sue Davis

Father Grace has shown up for 'Pray for Snow' parties.

Poncho Sanchez

I started on timbales. I had a friend who had a little Latin jazz band. His father made the timbales for us, so I learned to play on them.

Bobby Darin

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Claire Forlani

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Artie Lange

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

Aristotle

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Dave Mustaine

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Duncan Sheik

I actually am always a music first person

Anais Nin

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Suzy Kassem

Ignoring your conscience is the first violation of Truth.