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.

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

C. S. Lewis

We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?

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.

Blair Underwood

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

Diane Cilento

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Desi Arnaz

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Barbara Mikulski

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

Ayn Rand

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Brian Tracy

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

C. S. Lewis

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.

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.

Billy Campbell

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Billy Collins

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

Blaise Pascal

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.