Mark Twain Quotes

How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!

I'm happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capture smile moments and would encourage aspiring photographers to express themselves through their photos.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

You better be photographing a guy that’s happy and not some kind of snarler.

Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.

When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

When I die and my memories die with me, all that will remain will be thousands of yellowing photographs and 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets.

A picture is like a prayer.

The camera gives you some control.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your mind that you are doing it for posterity, you are doing for the eventual audience and it will be around forever.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.