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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If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.
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Good photography is unpretentious.
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I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.
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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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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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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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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
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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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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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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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There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.
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Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
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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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In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
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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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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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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
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“With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.”
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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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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.
