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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
- Poetry
No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
- Movies
The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author’s explanations, it never should have been published.
Archibald MacLeish1892–1982
- Poetry
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
- Photography
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honoured to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
Michael Jackson1958–2009
- Music
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
The MPAA rates this PG-13. It is too vulgar for anyone under 13, and too dumb for anyone over 13.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
- Movies
Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
- Photography
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Picture Parade, BBC (5 July 1960)
- Movies
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
- Photography
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
- Photography
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
- Photography
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
- Photography