Decision Quote by Ray Metzker

“she was as unused to seeing tenderness in a man's eyes as she was to being caught off guard. Admiration? Amusement? Yes. Even desire.…

— Connie Brockway

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

— W. Somerset Maugham

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

— Robert Adams

The world would see the beauty of the packaging, but only I knew the man inside it and how precious he was. His intimate…

— Sylvia Day

“I had before me an object lesson, I thought: two ways to face the world. One way as embodied by this old woman—simple, unassuming,…

— Lee Smith

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

— Juergen Teller

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful…

— Lasse Hallstrom

Whether it's a photograph or a piece of clothing, a leather bag or a film, I tend to gravitate towards simple, beautifully made, quietly…

— Alison Sudol

“its romantic embellishments – a”

— Penny Vincenzi

“Was it a moment of indecision or was it a moment of redemption. Redemption long overdue and long unacknowledged? They didn’t know. He suddenly…

— Vinod Pande

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

— Roger Ballen