Photography Quotes

• Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Painting

• I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Photography

• 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
  • Real
  • Art
  • Knowledge

• The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Space

• And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Familiar
  • Saws

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Advent

• First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Practice
  • Study
  • First

• For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

  

  Alec Soth
  • Photography
  • Subject
  • Respond

• The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

  

  Jeffrey Pierce
  • Great
  • Family
  • Together

• I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Dark
  • Wall
  • Fly

• 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.

  

  Lois Greenfield
  • Interesting
  • Dance
  • Photography

• In the 1950's there was a kind of agreement that a good artist would do something in his picture that acknowledge the edge, but it was a question of doing something when you got to the edge. Cropping was something new. It came from photography and from w:Clement Greenberg. It was resisted as being too easy.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Good
  • Question
  • Picture

• I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

  

  James Nachtwey
  • People
  • Service
  • Photography

• I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Photographer

• 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
  • People
  • Picture
  • Photography

• I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Work
  • 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

• I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Photography

• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Photography

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

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Balance

• Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • True
  • Photography
  • Complacency

• From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • Life
  • World

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