Top 1200 Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.
There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other hobby is photography.
The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.
The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
There are a lot of people who think celebrities shouldn't complain, that the photography is just a price to pay for having this career. I guess that's bizarre. What they don't understand is that this is all stuff that's really new.
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.
We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile made more sense.
I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.
Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.
When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate.
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.
I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.
Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.
I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.
... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
Photography has saved my life, over and over again.
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
I'm just a regular guy. I have two kids, I do photography, I pay my mortgage - I just happened to be on a TV show.
Photography is like oxygen for me. My hobby is my oxygen.
I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
