Albums Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought…

— Sam Abell

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave…

— Alec Soth

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would…

— Sally Mann

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a bit demeaning…

— Tim Key

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it.…

— Rodney Crowell

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's…

— Alec Soth

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship…

— Gerard Malanga