“If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.” IfsPersonsEndsTroubleGroupsSubjectsPlantExtraordinaryFinishingExhibitions Author:Edward Steichen
“If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.” PeopleIfsMatterDoneSubjectsAgreeSubject Matter Author:Clint Eastwood
“Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.” IfsSubjectsPicks Author:Barry White
“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.” IfsSaidSubjectsEffectsPurePhotographyAbsolutesMirrorsStartingPsychologicalPrincipalPortraitsStarting PointAbsolute Truth Author:August Sander
“There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.” IfsWaySaidSubjectsFinalsPrint Author:David Douglas Duncan
“I love when you get boner spam for boner pills and the subject is Be a better lover. Oh, the boner was the problem on that? That's why I'm a bad lover? Do you have a pill that's gonna make me care if she cums? That would be a medical miracle.” IfsProblemWould BeCareSubjectsLoversMiracleMedicalPillsSpamBoners Author:Doug Stanhope
“A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.” IfsWantFormSubjectsCatSexyIntimacy Author:Ellen von Unwerth
“Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.” IfsMenLawDiesStrongProcessSubjectsOffersCastsResistanceOppressionAll TimeNot AfraidWearyKill MeStrong Man Author:Sam Smith
“I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.” IfsTryingWonderSubjectsObsessive Author:Gary Gulman
“I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them.” IfsKnowsFeelsShouldSubjects Author:Tina Barney
“If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye alone, since the human glance is usually a momentary one.” IfsBelieveHumansWellsDoneEyeI BelieveSubjectsRepresentationGlancesRevealingMomentary Author:Dawoud Bey
“By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.” IfsMomentsFictionSubjectsSurprisePhotographStrikesRevelationsCompellingRemembranceFidelity Author:Tod Papageorge
“For me, it's not important whether [subjects] are naked, half-naked, or dressed. What I'm more interested in is how they present themselves: if someone is half-naked and having self-confidence or you have the feeling that she has or he has control of the situation. She likes to do it. Then I have nothing against it. But it's true that society doesn't talk about such issues. They just talk about whether there is a breast or not, but for me it's more interesting how the power game of camera and object is shown. And if it's a cool picture.” IfsImportantSelfFeelingsGamesInterestingHalfSituationIssuesSubjectsObjectsCamerasSelf ConfidenceLikesNakedBreasts Author:Pipilotti Rist
“Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature is superior to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.” IfsMenHumansLawSubjectsCreatorContrarySuperiorsMakersLaws Of NatureValidity Author:William Blackstone