Photography Quotes
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Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
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“With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.”
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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
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That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.
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I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
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I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
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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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My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
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Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.
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All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.
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Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.
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For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.
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One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.
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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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...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
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Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.
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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
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Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.
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Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
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Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
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Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.
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Light makes photography. Embrace light.
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As far as digital technology has come, there's still one thing that digital cameras won't do: give you perfect color every time. In fact, if they gave us perfect color 50% of the time, that would be incredible, but unfortunately every digital camera (and every scanner that captures traditional photos) sneaks in some kind of color cast in your image. Generally, it's a red cast, but depending on the camera, it could be blue. Either way, you can be pretty sure-there's a cast.
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Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
