Photography Quotes
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Good photography is unpretentious.
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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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Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
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Photography is a love affair with life.
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Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.
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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 consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
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I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
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With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
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I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
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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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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 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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All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
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Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.
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Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.
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I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.
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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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Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.
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I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that'd be really good for me - to disappear for a few years.
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In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
