Firsts Quote by William Morris Hunt

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression!…

— William Morris Hunt

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

“Something about the occasion makes me think I'm at my own wake. Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to…

— Don DeLillo

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point.…

— Don DeLillo

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored…

— Helen Frankenthaler

The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first…

— C. S. Lewis

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception…

— John Constable

“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at…

— Marisa Silver