Photography Quotes
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It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
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Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
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The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.
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...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
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Photography is very subjective though, so I would encourage people to follow their dreams ultimately.
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I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
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My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
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What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
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He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
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No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.
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Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography.
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Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
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My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
