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.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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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.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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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.
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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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.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
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Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
