Quotes about photography
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.
photography people way
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.
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.
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.
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.
photography light damn
Available light is any damn light that is available!
photography emotional made
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
photography travel doe
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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.
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
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.
photography attitude today
I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
photography house
Photography just gets us out of the house.
photography drinking house
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
photography war obvious
I am at war with the obvious.
photography people answers
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
photography lions taught
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you. Yann Arthus-Bertrand
photography writing lions
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
photography art photographer
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.
photography skills growth
I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and have the skills to symbolize visually the four-dimensional structure of the universe. Wynn Bullock
photography unique thinking
A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects. I was seeing things, instead, as dynamic events, unique in their own beings yet also related and existing together within a universal context of energy and change.
photography art creativity
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.
photography way profession
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
photography real unique
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.
photography picture-taking intuition
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you've done. So that's why I say that reason and intuition are not in conflict-they strengthen each other.
photography eye past
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.
photography dirty unique
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.