Fatal flaws Quote by Jay Asher

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

— Amy Hempel

“When a man invents an image that he wants to propagate, that he may even want to substitute for himself, he starts by experimenting,…

— Jean Genet

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

— Diane Arbus

“There's a fleeting moment that exists for every individual just before they do something truly life-altering. Its that flash of insight and sanity that…

— Heather Killough-Walden

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

— Kate Morton

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting…

— Bill Brandt

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

— Ansel Adams

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You…

— Diane Arbus

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not…

— Max Kozloff

...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object…

— Josef Sudek

There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why,…

— Jodi Picoult

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore…

— Mark Rothko