Quotes about photography
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... Jean Cocteau
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
photography saws photographer
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
photography battle form
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
photography thinking attractive
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
photography great-photography edges
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
photography thinking two
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
photography looks world
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
photography teacher thinking
You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.
photography important technique
You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
photography mean reality
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.
photography space pieces
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
photography photograph
You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
photography looks interest
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.
photography mistake emotion
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
photography looks
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
photography four facts
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
photography light photographer
Light makes photography. Embrace light. George Eastman