Photography Quotes
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
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Photography is a love affair with life.
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There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
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Photography just gets us out of the house.
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I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.
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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
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My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.
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I like to take things as they come and, as much as possible, not force anything. I think I could wind up somewhere completely different five years from now, something completely removed from acting - I could be perfectly content studying photography or English literature. At the same time, I love what I'm doing right now and could see doing this for a very long time.
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My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
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I am a huge obsessor with photography.
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To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.
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I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.
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I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
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Photography must be integrated with the story.
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
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My only interest in photographing is photography.
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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
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I wish I were better at… photography. Sometimes it feels like I can’t capture everything with just a pen.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
