#graph

If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void ↗

— Deanne Williams

#england #historiography #late-antiquity #narrativist #age

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#altering #holding #instant #life #out

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

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

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#area #come #curious #else #essay

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#did #done #expect #front #i

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#parties #party #reminded #said #sex

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photographs #photography #art