Aperture Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Restraint is the better part of beauty.

— Frances Gray Patton

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences…

— Joshua Reynolds

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

— Conrad Hall

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

— John Ruskin

Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle.

— John O'Donohue

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

— John Piper

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

— Tuesday Weld

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and…

— Clement Greenberg

Focus is like an air hose that can easily over inflate even the smallest problem and blow it way out of proportion.

— Senoraroy

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

— Betty Buckley

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

— Ovid

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

— Paul Chong Hasang