Photography Quotes
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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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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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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 think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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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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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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I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.
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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
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Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.
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I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.
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I don't know many things about me and photography. I know I'm instinct. I participate in dancing even if I'm not a good dancer; it is difficult to go in but when you get inside it's more difficult to get out.
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I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Let a man of genius make use of photography as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
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in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
