#bj

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#before #enlargements #enormous #entirely #fragment

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#dealt #discuss #fundamental #fundamental questions #future

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#back #because #claustrophobic #could #felt

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#end #going #help #i #shoot

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#any #father #got #guy #i

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ↗

— John Lennon

#away #being #ends #expressing #i

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#good #i #know #looking #objectively

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. ↗

— Philip Levine

#best #day #every #every day #going

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#animate #instruct #literature #object

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried