Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Hardy

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

Jeff Bridges

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

Jean Renoir

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

Jean-Luc Godard

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

Jean-Luc Godard

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

Jean-Luc Godard

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

Jim Goldberg

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Jerry Saltz

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jeffrey Kluger

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

Jeffrey Pierce

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.

Christian Marclay

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.

Christian Marclay

Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer.... I often see things after the fact. This revelatory quality includes a sense of playfulness, because you're not sure what the consequences are going to be.

George Santayana

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

Frans Lanting

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

Jeanette Winterson

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

Jerry Uelsmann

The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?

Jerry Uelsmann

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

Jerry Uelsmann

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

Jerry Uelsmann

Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value.

Jerry Uelsmann

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

Jerry Uelsmann

Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.

Jerry Uelsmann

I have gradually confused photography with life.

Jerry Uelsmann

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

Jerry Uelsmann

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

Jerry Uelsmann

Photography is just light remembering itself.

Jerzy Kosinski

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Jerzy Kosinski

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.

Jelena Jankovic

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

Gabriel Lippmann

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Gabriel Byrne

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

Frank Capra

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.

Christopher Anderson

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

Christopher Anderson

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.