Photography Quotes
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Photography is a very important part of my life.
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...the very basics of photography can be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
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I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
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The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.
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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
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Photography is the product of complete alienation.
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The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
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There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.
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It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.
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The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
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As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
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To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.
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Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.
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I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
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Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.
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[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
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We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
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You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
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I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.
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Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.
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I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
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I get so confused about life photography art.
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That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
