Photography Quotes

• Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Photography

• Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • People
  • Good
  • Moment

• I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Art
  • History
  • Photography

• When I was young, for some reason, I thought a postman's job was quite cool, and once, I even contemplated becoming a lawyer. Finally, I decided to dabble in something creative like fashion designing or photography. Till I joined college, I had no clue that one day, I will face the camera.

  

  Pooja Hegde
  • Job
  • College
  • Fashion

• A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • Easy
  • Photography

• Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

  

  Alfred Stieglitz
  • Photography
  • Thanks

• Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Cosmic

• Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.

  

  Clyde Butcher
  • Artist
  • Talent
  • Becoming

• Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Different
  • Painting
  • Photography

• What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Quality

• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• We know photography, but there's another aspect to it, which is getting it out there to people.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • People
  • Photography
  • Aspect

• The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Balance

• I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

  

  Keith Carter
  • Said
  • Photography
  • Successfully

• I'm just immensely proud of my brother for tackling both the big job of doing 'Riverdale,' which is a lot of hours and has had, like, a lot of success, and also at the same time not losing sight of his passions like photography, which he's very good at.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.

  

  Chris March
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Drawing

• Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Feels
  • Enough
  • Photograph

• I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Charity
  • Events

• I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and love photography as well, so that's something I'd like to do.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Photography

• I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

  

  Paul Strand
  • True
  • Care
  • Kitchen

• I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Experience
  • Dark
  • Photography

• I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.

  

  Brooklyn Beckham
  • Art
  • Photography

• 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman

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