Top 1200 Color Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

The only footwear I need is an inexpensive pair of blue sneakers. They have soft fabric tops and soft rubber-like soles. I get them one size too large so I can wiggle my toes. I feel as free as though I were barefoot! And I can usually get 1,500 miles to a pair. I wear a pair of navy blue socks.There's a reason why I chose navy blue for my wearing apparel-it's a very practical color, doesn't show dirt, and the color blue does represent peace and spirituality.

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

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

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.