A Quote by Eve Arnold

I came to photography by accident.

Eve Arnold

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Eve Arnold
American - Photographer
April 21, 1912 - January 4, 2012

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

Peter Lindbergh

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

Gordon Willis

Photography is an accident.

Patrick Demarchelier

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

Rachel Morrison

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

Taryn Simon

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Plato

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

Kapil Sibal

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

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.

David Bailey

I think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop photographer came while I was at the Geographic in the late 70's, and has continued consistently since then.

Sam Abell

When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.

Vilmos Zsigmond

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

Ralph Gibson

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

Vik Muniz

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