Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sexton

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

John Sexton

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

John Sexton

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

Nick Harkaway

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

Peter Beard

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.

Penelope Lively

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Nicolas Berggruen

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

Nicolas Cage

I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.

Nick Zinner

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

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

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

John Ruskin

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

John Ruskin

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

Michael Heizer

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

Mathew Brady

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.

Mathew Brady

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.

Mason Cooley

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

Mia Wasikowska

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Michelangelo Antonioni

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

Mark Rothko

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Oscar Wilde

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

Madonna Ciccone

When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.

Madonna Ciccone

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

Lorrie Moore

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Michael Deaver

I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.

Jim Goldberg

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Jerry Saltz

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

Jeffrey Kluger

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

Jeffrey Pierce

The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

Eugene Delacroix

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.