Camera obscura Quote by Bill Jay Download Open image “I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.” — Bill Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camera obscura Cameras Coffins I can Photography
When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a… — Jeanne Calment Copy Share Image
“Deceased's request as stated in last will and testament: 'I want to be made up to look undead, like the fucking sexiest vampire chick… — Jen Violi Copy Share Image
When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can… — Tricky Copy Share Image
I wish there was a camera that showed the beauty of people on the inside, not the outside. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is. — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible. — Vicki Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes, to be… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Nor can we see the coffin of a person we have known, without experiencing some new shock of loss. In this respect, a coffin… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just… — Hank Snow Copy Share Image
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new… — Bill Jay Copy Share
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view… — Bill Jay Copy Share
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history... It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share
“Photos are moments in the history. Reviving magical memories is weaving life with fantastic thread.” — Indeewara Jayawardane Copy Share Image
If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
