Photography Quotes
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I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
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You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
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My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
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I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
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Good photography is unpretentious.
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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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My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.
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I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
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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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Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.
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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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With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
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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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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn’t know.
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If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
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I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
