Joel Sternfeld Quotes
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
Ori Gersht -
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell -
I never read about photography.
Sally Mann -
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
Ikue Mori -
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
Pamela Meyer -
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein -
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson -
I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
Sally Mann -
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers -
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand -
I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
Mahershala Ali
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
Banksy -
Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
Vannevar Bush -
Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
Jacob Bronowski -
And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
Larry Wall -
People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Berenice Abbott -
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
Don McCullin -
Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
David Doubilet -
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
Albert Camus -
London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
Carine Roitfeld -
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
Joel Sternfeld