Top 1200 Photography And Travel Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)

Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

Normally you have news, weather and travel.....but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

People who are new to photography always pull their subjects directly into the sun, which is the most unflattering light in the world.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick a date. Let's plan this and make a party and get married.' Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world, and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you're still in love with that person, get married at the airport.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.