Oscar Wilde Writer “The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.” Water Wine Photography ♥ 3
LG Lauren Graham Actress “Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.” Hard Work Culture Photography ♥ 3
Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman “I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.” Taken Photography Portraits ♥ 3
Jaime King Actress, Model “It was around the age of 18 when I started to feel like I had learned everything I could learn from being a model - modeling is a really incredible form of expression, but I got into modeling because I loved fashion so much and I really loved photography.” Fashion Expression Photography ♥ 3
LF Lee Friedlander Photographer “I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.” Ideas Important Photography ♥ 3
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic “There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.” Looks Photography Ridiculous ♥ 3
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic “What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.” Ambition Photography Buttons ♥ 3
Helmut Newton Photographer “The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.” Thinking Hard Work Photography ♥ 3
Gia Coppola Filmmaker “I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.” Littles Dad Photography ♥ 3
HH Henry Holmes Smith Photographer “In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard.” World Past Photography ♥ 3
Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician “The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.” Writing Art Photography ♥ 3
Keith Emerson Musician “If they want a photograph, then just take it.” Want Photography Photograph ♥ 3
