Photography Quotes
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Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
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I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
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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 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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I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.
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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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Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.
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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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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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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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I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.
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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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Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.
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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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How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
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For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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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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Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.
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My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
