Top 1200 Art Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere.

I get so confused about life photography art.

I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.

I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.

Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness, a lie.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.

Photography is not a fine art at all.

The thing with my workshops is, photography is a thoughtful process. In an atmosphere of fast photography, and generally thoughtless, quick, automatic photography, I think that there is an interest in the slowed down, thoughtful approach.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

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

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components of photography itself. Photography uses paper made from trees, water, metals, and chemistry. In a way, I was looking at all these things that feed into photography.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.

Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was even very precise. So as far as I'm concerned, the kind of photography I did in the FSA was the kind of photography I still do today, because it is based on passionate concern for the human condition. That is the basis of all the work that I do.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose photography because I see photography as an applied science. There is an artistic element also in it. If you perfect your scientific element, you can attain certain quality.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing!

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.