Quotes of: Frida Keyword

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Arnold Newman

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Aaron Siskind

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Bill Brandt

I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.

Tim Walker

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

William Eggleston

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Walker Evans

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

Weegee

Life is like Tyra Bank’s left breast. It’s not right it’s not fair & still people loves it for what it is.

Yatin Patel

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Diane Arbus Revelations

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

I'm homeless, and I'm an alcoholic. But I have a dream.' 'What's that?' 'I wanna go fishing.

Humans of New York

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

The Proverbs of John Heywood. Being the "Proverbes" of That Author Printed 1546

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

John James Audubon

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first...

Jock Sturges

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

Sam Abell

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

Ori Gersht

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.

Philippe Halsman

Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

Roger A. Caras