Kris > Kris's Quotes

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.”
― Sahara Sanders

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”
― Lisa Scottoline , Every Fifteen Minutes

“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
― diane arbus

“Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.”
― Eddie Adams

“No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.”
― Katja Michael

“Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.”
― Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
― Elliott Erwitt

“It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.”
― Linda Olsson

“A photograph is the best split-second decision one can make!”
― Annie O'Reilly

“Where the world saw 'nothing'; And called it 'empty'..
I saw an Ocean of Air; Filled with opportunities...!”
― Deejay Kapil

“In photography and in life, always look for the light -- if you don't see it, bring it...”
― John Waire

“Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.”
― Marius Vieth

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
― Peter Adams

“A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck....life is just fine”
― sunny-drunk

“To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.”
― Susana Fortes, Waiting for Robert Capa

“He who seeks beauty will find it.”
― Bill Cunningham

“Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.”
― John Thai

“And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
and silently steal away.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it’s never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. Perhaps they, whoever they were, thought of a falling sun. That might be it, except that that ought to give us dayfall. Day fell on Rupert the Bear. And we know, if we’ve ever read a book, that day doesn’t fall or rise. It breaks. In books, day breaks, and night falls.

In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.”
― Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”
― Toni Morrison

“Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved