Quotes About Photo Books

#1. You could start a small fire ... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

John Gossage

#2. Few people read coffee-table photo books, and indeed they are not intended to be read. I find the text in these books is often surprisingly good, perhaps because the author
or more importantly, the editor
feels no need to pander.

Tyler Cowen

#3. I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes ... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

Sean Combs

#4. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

Lester B. Pearson

#6. Only the body saves the soul.

Rowan Williams

#7. The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.

Colin Ward

#8. Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

Tony Snow

#10. By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

#12. Lend."
"Lend?" Raquel asked.
"Yes, as in, lend me your self." He shimmered into Raquel again.
"Why not Borrow?" I asked. "Better yet, Steal?

Kiersten White

#13. But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

Clarice Lispector

#14. I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Arnold Schoenberg

#16. She is an uber-doer, exactly the kind of person you want riding shotgun when you're chasing a big goal and also trying to have a life.

Chris Hadfield

#17. Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Nigel Dennis

#18. There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

Pamela Ribon

#19. I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

Sally Mann

#20. I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

Carine Roitfeld

#21. Even though He wants our help, values our help, and calls for our help in changing the world, our all-powerful God is not helpless - even without us.

Nik Ripken

#22. Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.

Steve Hagen