#graph

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#could #effect #expect #hope #lost

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#asked #completely #disrespectful #feel #going

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #biography #democracy #examine #famous

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#form #lying #most #probably #respectable

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#aware #i #i am #i do #interesting

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#care #cinematography #composed #composition #gone

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. ↗

— Chuck Close

#i #paint #photograph #really #somebody

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#form #installment #last #missing #obituary

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#good #photographer #simplest

I had been teaching myself photography. ↗