Photography Quotes
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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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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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Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.
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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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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really 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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In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
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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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When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
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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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Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
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Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
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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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I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
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And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
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Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
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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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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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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
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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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I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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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.
