Architecture Quote by Patti Smith

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

— Lisa Joy

When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles.…

— Teju Cole

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

— Lana Del Rey

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought…

— Sam Abell

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing…

— Natasha Trethewey

I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a bit demeaning…

— Tim Key

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the…

— Frank Horvat

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

— Larry Towell

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

— Cate Marvin

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

— Vik Muniz

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I…

— Nan Goldin