Photography Quotes
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Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.
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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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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've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.
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Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.
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I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.
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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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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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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.
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I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
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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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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
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I would love to study photography.
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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt -
I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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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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Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
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I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
