Top 1200 Photography And Travel Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

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

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

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

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

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

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

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

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

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

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

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

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

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

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

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

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

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

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

As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.

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

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

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

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

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

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

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

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

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

Eve-teasing used to happen almost on a daily basis in Delhi. I used to travel in DTC buses while going to college for the longest time. I got my car when I was 19. So for two years before getting a car, I used to travel in DTC buses. And eve-teasing used to happen almost daily.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

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

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

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

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.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

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

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

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

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

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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

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

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

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

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?