Garry Winogrand Quotes
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.Garry Winogrand
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Galen Rowell -
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey -
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
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
Sally Mann -
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
Damian Loeb -
I hate having my photograph taken.
E. L. James -
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell -
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 -
Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.
Jeff Bridges
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I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
Jeff Bridges -
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
Duane Michals -
Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.
Patti Smith -
I just love the world of photography.
Brooke Burke -
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
James Nachtwey -
Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.
Lynsey Addario
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Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
Alison Jackson -
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
Drew Barrymore -
Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
Gerald Vizenor -
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 -
The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.
Terence McKenna -
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
Garry Winogrand