Fiction Quote by Robertson Davies Download Open image “Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.” — Robertson Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Oil Oil painting Painting Photography
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document;… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
