Framing Photography Quotes & Sayings

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. — J.G. Holland

I've been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I've always been ahead of my time. — Wynter Gordon

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory. — James Scott Bell

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age. — Thomas Szasz

You're not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are responsible for how you react to what happens to you. You either stay on your knees or you get up. Those are your choices. — Eileen Cruz Coleman

The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph ... — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

My face filled with the warm glow of embarrassment preventing me from smiling back so I turned and ran away. — Nicci Greene

Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow. — Leonard Nimoy

You are a Fox," Andrew said, like it was that simple, and maybe it was. Nathaniel — Nora Sakavic

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell. — David Reuben

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion ... love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music. — Lady Gaga

I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography. — Gordon Matta-Clark

Sometimes I feel like I was one of those who was left in the sack while everyone else was falling out in groups, I whispered. Wilson's — Amy Harmon

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time. — Annie Leibovitz

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity. — P.A. Wunderlich

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld