Quotes about photo
photography accidents
I came to photography by accident. Eve Arnold
photography chance genre
A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.
photography magic musician
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
photography cameras photographer
The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
photography people lenses
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
photography taken portraits
I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know... Francis Bacon
photography jesus light
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
photography clothes benefits
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world. George Santayana
photography art book
I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form. Chris Parnell
photography news dry
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. Chris Hondros
photography way
The only way to kill death is through photography. Jean Cocteau
photographer poet painter
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
photography silence cry
Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless...
photography
I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be. Garry Winogrand
photograph
There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
photography thinking moved
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.
photography interest
My only interest in photographing is photography.
photography thinking worry
There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
photograph
A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.
photography art problem
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.
photography photograph
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
photograph
I have to photograph where I am.
photography photograph responsible
You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks. In other words, it's responsible for the form.
photography photograph reloading
There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
photography all-things
All things are photographable.
photography done enough
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
photography people trying
There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.
photography stills
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
photograph interest
Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.
photography divorce interesting
I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
photography looks way
A photograph can look any way.
photography facts mysterious
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
photography desire burning
I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.