Birth Quote by Edith Roosevelt

“Photographs is not the same as just name, is more living. Otherwise, why save photographs? (Marijana to Mr Rayment)”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Aside from her marriage, her obituary is the only time a lady's name should appear in the newspaper. And God help her if the…

— Kate Morton

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

“Who is the other woman whose photograph I do not have? If my mother was the first in my life, she was the last:…

— Philip Sington

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

“What right did she have to take photographs of strangers? But she knew these faces....These people had been made to feel inadequate, abnormal. Their…

— Marisa Silver

It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it.…

— Diana Ross

“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers. There might…

— Meg Wolitzer

I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“You should never let your picture be in a magazine or newspaper if you can help it, as you never know what ends your…

— Margaret Atwood