Photography Quotes
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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.
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If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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Photography is an accident.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.
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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.
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If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
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Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they're wearing but who they are.
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Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.
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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.
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I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.
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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.
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
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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.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
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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.
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So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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I am at war with the obvious.
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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.
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Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
