Photography Quotes
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!
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Photography is a language more universal than words.
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I know about photography - I'm really good at it.
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
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Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
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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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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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You see, I'm not interested in mediocrity in photography. I'm not interested in selling cat shit to dogs. I just want to do my own thing. If people like my work, all the better. If they don't, too bad.
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
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I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?
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When I was starting out, conceptual photography had become something that had to be amateur - like, that had to be black-and-white, or photocopied, or really not an object in order to be taken seriously. It had to work against technical mastery, and so on. So I think that my work is full of obstacles in the sense that it does look highly familiar and accessible. It does look like it's already "solved at first sight." It does look like it's part of a larger industry.
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Good photography is unpretentious.
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Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
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I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
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Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
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A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.
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...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
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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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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
