Photography Quotes
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'Humans of New York' wasn't the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.
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Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.
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If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
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My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.
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I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I've never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.
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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 -
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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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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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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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.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.
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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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If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.
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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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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
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In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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We know photography, but there's another aspect to it, which is getting it out there to people.
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Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
