COOL QUOTE: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
- George Bernard Shaw

COOL QUOTE: RUTH BERNHARD

"I never question what to do, it tells me what to do.  The photographs make themselves with my help."  

~Ruth Bernhard

COOL QUOTE: CHRISTINE BURGOYNE

A photograph is an opportunity to glimpse the interior of its creator. It is an opinion based on what was going on inside the photographer at the time the shutter was released. Look back on the unfolding of any one of the great timeless artists—see the unique evolution of that person and their artwork as they created through the years. Then take a closer look at any given time—what are they saying now? Isn't that an opinion? 

- Christine Burgoyne

COOL QUOTE: ANDY WARHOL

"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."

 - Andy Warhol

COOL QUOTE: ANONYMOUS

"If you do what you always have done, you'll get what you always have got."

- Anonymous

COOL QUOTE: PABLO PICASSO

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

COOL QUOTE: RICHARD AVEDON

"And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible."

 - Richard Avedon

COOL QUOTE: BROOKS ATKINSON

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

- Brooks Atkinson

COOL QUOTE: LEO BURNETT

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

- Leo Burnett

COOL QUOTE: GEORGE LOIS

"Creativity can solve alomst any problem.

The creative act, the defeat of habit by

 originality, overcomes everything."

-George Lois

COOL QUOTE: NORA EPHRON

“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.”

-Nora Ephron

COOL QUOTE: IRVING PENN

"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart,

leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.

It is, in a word, effective."

- Irving Penn

COOL QUOTE: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."

-Annie Leibovitz

COOL QUOTE: DAVID LACHAPELLE

"My work is about making candy for the eyes. It’s about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster."

 - David LaChapelle 

COOL QUOTE: SUSAN SONTAG

"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

 - Susan Sontag

COOL QUOTE: PAUL GRAHAM

"When you’re forced to be simple, you’re forced to face the real problem. When you can’t deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance."

– Paul Graham

COOL QUOTE: ARISTOTLE

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle

COOL QUOTE: ROBERT FRANK

"When people look at my photographs I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice."

-Robert Frank

COOL QUOTE: ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

-Albert Einstein

COOL QUOTE: RICHARD AVEDON

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

-Richard Avedon