Film Quote by Stephen Shore

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too…

— Boris Becker

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

“Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?”

— Milan Kundera

There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter…

— Clarence John Laughlin

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

“...a memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph.”

— Jennifer Finney Boylan

Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It…

— Noel Riley Fitch

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you…

— Garry Winogrand

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects…

— Pamela Ribon

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich