Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

Edvard Munch

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

Edvard Munch

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.

Edvard Munch

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Hans Haacke

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Herb Ritts

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

Herb Ritts

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Herb Ritts

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

Herb Ritts

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Jessica Lange

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

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

Jessica Lange

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Jessica Lange

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.

Ernst Haas

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

Ernst Haas

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

Ernst Haas

in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.

Ernst Haas

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

Ernst Haas

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

Ernst Haas

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

Ernst Haas

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Ernst Haas

The best zoom lens is your legs.

Ernst Haas

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

Ernst Haas

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera...

Ernst Haas

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

Ernst Haas

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

Ernst Haas

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

Ernst Haas

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Ernst Haas

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

Ernst Haas

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

Ernst Haas

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

Ernst Haas

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Ernst Haas

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Eudora Welty

I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.