Barbara Januszkiewicz Quotes

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

There's this whole other element of film scoring, which is the social and psychological side of how you're dealing with people... And that is not always in sync with what's right for the picture.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task