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.

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.

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.

Jerzy Kosinski

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

Harry Callahan

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

Carl Sagan

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

Bill Brandt

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Jessica Lange

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Rob Smith

We think it's an appropriate step to take to protect the integrity of our products and the safety of our patients here in the U.S. and Canada.

Shirley Manson

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Steven Pressfield

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

Robert Burns

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

Sidney Sheldon

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

John Wanamaker

Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.

John Tillotson

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

Mark Zuckerberg

The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Ray Kroc

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

John Travolta

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

W. H. Auden

Love each other or perish

Peace Pilgrim

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

Peace Pilgrim

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

Terry Goodkind

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Leo Tolstoy

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.