#graph

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#down #get #i #keep #lot

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#form #installment #last #missing #obituary

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#face #first #i #me #oh

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#america #back #became #came #drop-out

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#aging #back #been #context #enough

But I've always been a sucker for externals alone: the shape, the shine, what the surface suggests to my palm. So mechanically disinclined it's verging on criminal, I never understood the beauty of an object's workings until Linny sat my reluctant self down one day and showed me her camera. Within fifteen minutes, I had fallen hard for the whole gadgety, eyelike nature of the thing: a tiny piece of glass slowing, bending, organizing light - light - into your grandmother, the Grand Canyon, the begonia on the windowsill, the film keeping the image like a secret. Grandmother, canyon, begonia tucked neatly into the sleek black box, like bugs in a jar. My mind boggled. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#beauty

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#good #photographer #simplest

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#browser #everything #eye #found #graphical

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#artistic #beautiful #did #i #modeling

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had