Quotes About Julia Margaret Cameron

#1. I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#2. Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#3. The sun set, which is everyday magic...

Terry Pratchett

#4. From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#5. What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

Julia Margaret Cameron

#6. I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#7. I believe that ... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon ...

Julia Margaret Cameron

#8. Smile because it's infectious.
Love because it's contagious.

Debasish Mridha

#9. When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#10. Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#11. New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

Roland Barthes

#12. Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#13. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#14. Is it necessary, do you think,' he began, leaning in so close behind me that I could smell his breath, 'for the purpose of visiting your grandmother's childhood home, to dress like a kindergarten whore?

Danielle Wood

#15. I have always trusted my instincts, I took some bold decisions in my life ... many people may say they were crazy risks.

Bob Hartley

#16. My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#17. You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

James Dashner

#18. Those men aren't fucking men. They're pansy-ass rich boys who think they own the fucking world. They wouldn't know a real Dom from their asshole on their best day.

Sai Marie Johnson

#19. The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#20. When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#21. I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

Anthony Bourdain

#22. Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.

Bruce Dickinson

#23. I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep asking for one more day for the rest of my life.

Cindi Madsen

#24. Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man.

Karen Blixen

#25. However, she was not a rational woman, and she did not reconsider.

Esther Dalseno