#graph

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. ↗

— John Legend

#biographies #bit #booker #civil #civil rights

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#emotion #energy #i #i wish #land

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#i #know #like #means #photograph

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#enjoy #going #heart #i #i think

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#find #form #frank #glamour #had

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#get #good #i #i think #lazy

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. ↗

— John Lennon

#cab #cab driver #driver #everyone #handshake

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#agree #art #clicking #fine #i

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#autobiography #book #collage #fragments #insane

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear