Photography Quotes
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen -
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
Ori Gersht
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Photography is an accident.
Patrick Demarchelier -
Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
Don McCullin -
I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
Kara Swisher -
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
Garry Winogrand -
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
Martin Parr -
I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
Walead Beshty
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Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
David Lynch The Platters -
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann -
Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.
Gail Levin -
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
Galen Rowell -
If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
Jessica Lange -
In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.
Drew Barrymore
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The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
David Bailey -
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.
Paul Strand -
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
Drew Barrymore -
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.
William Klein -
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Galen Rowell -
I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
Carlene Carter
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey -
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
Sam Abell -
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Aaron Siskind -
I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
Pattie Maes