Quotes for All
If you’ve ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don’t know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you … Read more
A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs. Emmy Rossum
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody’s voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters … Read more
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time. Claude Levi-Strauss
The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed. Christian Lacroix
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams
It’s funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they’re related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there’s a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the … Read more
All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. Alan Moore