Photography Quotes
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And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable.
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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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The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
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Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere. I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... but once you've perfected something you have to start searching for a new toy. I would rather search for a new model or location.
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I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
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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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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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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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This profession photography is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
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The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."
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Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
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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.
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We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
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Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
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I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.
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Photography is without mercy - though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
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I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
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Photography has no dark sides!
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Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.
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I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
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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.
