Quotes about photograph
photography real reason
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. Chuck Close
photography ideas benefits
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
photography artist trying
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.
photography lying media
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
photography kids age
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
photography mind facts
I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
photography eight color
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
photography mean people
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
photography being-sad use
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
photography differences doe
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
photography memories thinking
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
photography views point-of-view
From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.
photography art perception
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
photography art decision
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
photography thinking museums
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
photography art mirrors
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
photography moving thinking
It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.
photography inspiration photographer
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
photography media different
The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
photography inspiration clouds
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
photography looks likes
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
photography artist enemy
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
photography art way
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
photography vision mediums
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
photography attention maps
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
photography expression photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels. Ansel Adams
photography cameras abstract
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
photography destiny firsts
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
photography men giving
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
photography believe assessment
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
photography simple technique
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
photography spiritual reflection
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.
photography weather good-photography
Bad weather makes for good photography.