Quotes about photography
photography art people
When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it... Walker Evans
photography thinking editing
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
photography character personality
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
photography eye simple
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
photography jobs kitchen
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen. Sally Schneider
photography lenses unexpected
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise! Salvador Dali
photography perspective different
The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
photography vision shackles
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
photography taken decision
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. Salman Rushdie
photography art skills
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject. W. H. Auden
photography ipads watches
I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me. Tyson Chandler
photography oil fiction
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting. Robertson Davies
photography thinking knowing
I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else... Robert Mapplethorpe
photography unexpected unexpected-things
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
photography people waiting
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
photography children sunday
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.
photography zero goes-on
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
photography years two
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
photography hands sake
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
photography wake-up essentials
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
photography perfect today
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
photography photographer great-photography
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
photography party artist
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
photography order notable
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value. Roland Barthes
photography eye sight
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
photography thinking pensive
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
photography trying may
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death.
photography infinity photograph
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
photography memories intellectual
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
photography invisible photograph
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
photography messages code
The photographic image... is a message without a code.
photography color inseparable
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. William Albert Allard
photography simplicity important
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.