Butterfly Quote by Tim Walker

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

— Wally Lamb

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth.…

— Gerhard Richter

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

— Brian Selznick

Sometimes I make up stories to go along with the pictures I find. And I always wish they would happen to me.

— Crap

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real…

— John Darnielle

My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I've been through many, many years of…

— Ron White

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

I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a…

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work…

— Nick Cave

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

— Franz Kafka

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman