Art Wolfe Quotes
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham -
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
Harold Feinstein -
I hate having my photograph taken.
E. L. James -
The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.
Buzz Aldrin
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
Bette Midler -
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
Weegee -
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
Garry Winogrand -
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
Garry Winogrand -
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
Garry Winogrand -
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
Garry Winogrand
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A photograph can look any way.
Garry Winogrand -
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
Garry Winogrand -
There is no special way a photograph should look.
Garry Winogrand -
For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.
Garry Winogrand -
I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
Garry Winogrand -
I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.
Garry Winogrand
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People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
Errol Morris -
Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
Oscar Wilde -
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-A-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!
Dan Castellaneta -
Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
Art Wolfe