#graph

A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality. ↗

— Carolina deBartolo

#typography #art

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

#creativity #photography #art

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ↗

— Duane Michals

#face #great #i #i think #know

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#autobiographical #bring #i #i write #into

If geography is prose, maps are iconography. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#iconography #maps #prose

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew. ↗

— Anne Moody

#civil-rights #coming-of-age-in-mississippi #faith #god #nature

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times. ↗

— Charles Moore

#changing #different #i #intended #landscapes

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields. ↗

— Norman Parkinson

#farmer #fields #him #like #magazine

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant! ↗

— Pat Morita

#away #been #detail #i #just

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. ↗

— Joan Miró

#photography #art