Quotes about photograph
photography people waiting
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography children sunday
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography zero goes-on
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography years two
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography hands sake
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography wake-up essentials
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography perfect today
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography photographer great-photography
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography party artist
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers. Robert Mapplethorpe
photography art creativity
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. Wassily Kandinsky
photography art technology
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. William Landay
photography alcohol should
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Walter Sickert
photography father firsts
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. Winona Ryder
photography desire facts
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. William S. Burroughs
photography color inseparable
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. William Albert Allard
photography simplicity important
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. William Albert Allard
photography people way
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people. William Albert Allard
photography thinking interesting
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. William Albert Allard
photography tools photographer
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. William Albert Allard
photography art actors
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts. Wim Wenders
photography views may
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. Will Self
photography thinking purpose
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. W. Eugene Smith
photography responsibility thinking
The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography. W. Eugene Smith
photograph ifs
You can't photograph if you're not in love. W. Eugene Smith
photography light damn
Available light is any damn light that is available! W. Eugene Smith
photography emotional made
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. W. Eugene Smith
photographer honest impossible
The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no. W. Eugene Smith
photography travel doe
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. W. Eugene Smith
photography voice groups
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. W. Eugene Smith
photography art challenges
The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other. Yousuf Karsh
photograph
I like to photograph democratically. William Eggleston
photography school downtown
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. William Eggleston
photography art black-and-white
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me. William Eggleston