Basil Rathbone Quotes

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

I appreciate film and stuff that's visually pleasing.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

Facts do not speak.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Photographing a cake can be art.

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.