Photography Quote by Eliot Porter Download Open image “Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.” — Eliot Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photography Sometimes Stories Subjects Tiny
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
There's always something personal, no matter how big or small the story is. — Haaz Sleiman Copy Share Image
You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too. — Mick Jones Copy Share Image
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it. — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a… — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image