(53 quotes found)
“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time (they spend studying the band) on politics,”
Dave Matthews
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
Camille Paglia
“I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers. But let's speak of them-the would-be filmmakers, the tiny fraction. I've witnessed many times when I've showed films and was present at a screening that exactly those people feel very much encouraged by what I'm doing.”
Werner Herzog
“Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence”
The Talmud
“The fractions were tough enough early on and I wasn't too worried. When I pulled (Classic Photo), he felt very strong and with each horse that we passed he just got stronger and braver. My horse isn't as big as Vivid Photo, but he's got a bigger gait.”
Andy Miller
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“We estimate there are 50,000 cases in the city each year. We see only a fraction of that. Most go unreported.”
Christopher Miller
“Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. (Quarter=two bits)”
Charles A. Jaffe
“The instant built-in audience for the winners is enormous, so if even a fraction of viewers download a new single or buy a CD, it's an enormous amount of sales. It's a huge payday for the artist and the label.”
Barry Jeckell
