A Quote by Honoré Daumier

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

Honoré Daumier

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Everything Expresses Imitates Nothing Photography

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Honoré Daumier
French - Artist
February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879

I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film and paper to everything on a chip. Photography 3.0 is the use of the camera, space, and color and to capture an object in the third dimension.

Edward Burtynsky

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Berenice Abbott

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.

Joel Meyerowitz

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Joseph Joubert

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

Francesco Guicciardini

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

Francesco Guicciardini

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared... Photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it was achieved.

Bill Brandt

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

Tia Mowry

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

Brad Holland

To us, the difference between the #? photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #? photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

Susan Sontag

"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

Talib Kweli

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Bruce Willis

It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'