Photography Quotes
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In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
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I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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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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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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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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Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.
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There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
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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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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
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Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
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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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Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.
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My only interest in photographing is photography.
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I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
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Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
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Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.
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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.
