Photography Quotes
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Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Thomas Staley
Alice in Chains
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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
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
Walker Evans
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I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.
Don McCullin
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What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.
Jessica Lange
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When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.
Connor Franta
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Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
Jerzy Kosinski
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
Garry Winogrand
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I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
Mahershala Ali
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The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
Rashid Johnson
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Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.
Paul Strand
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Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.
Lynsey Addario
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Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Andreas Gursky
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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
Paul Strand
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
Francesco Carrozzini
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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
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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Elliott Erwitt
