#graph

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. ↗

— Jim Dine

#art #artist #biographical #built #passion

The worse the reviews, the better for our demographic. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#demographic #our #reviews #worse

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#blood #culture #french #generally #highly

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#become #cinematography #craft #director #how

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#photography #some #traditional #use #ways

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. ↗

— Anne Seward

#eminent #failings #good #just #record

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#end #everything #exists #order #photograph

Discretion is not the better part of biography. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#biography #discretion #part

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the old magic of light-sensitive emulsions was waning, that to the rising generation the enchantment lay in a techne of images without substance, images that could flash through the ether without residing anywhere, that could be sucked into a machine and emerge from it doctored, untrue. He gave up recording the world in photographs then, and transferred his energies to saving the past. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#illusion #photography #age