Photography Quotes
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
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When you move handheld, and the director of photography has the courage to shoot with no lights, the set becomes a space of creativity and freedom where actors can move wherever they want to move.
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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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Photography is very subjective though, so I would encourage people to follow their dreams ultimately.
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He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
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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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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
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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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I think I came alive when I started photography.
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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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Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.
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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 could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
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My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
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Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.
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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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You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
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I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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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.
