Subjective Perspective Quotes

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

Our own lives always influence the way we write.

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

People have own mind, own views.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.

Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.