Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Votes: 5
Dorothea LangePhotography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. Votes: 3
Sebastian SmeePhotography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving. Votes: 3
Christian BoltanskiPhotography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. Votes: 3
Henri Cartier-BressonPhotography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. Votes: 3
Henri Cartier-BressonIt's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography. Votes: 3
Thomas LeuthardPhotography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. Votes: 3
Duane MichalsPhotography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. Votes: 3
Arthur RothsteinPhotography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. Votes: 3
Susan SontagPhotography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. Votes: 3
Pierre-Auguste RenoirPhotography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. Votes: 3
Bruno BarbeyPhotography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand. Votes: 3
John Paul CaponigroStreet Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it... Votes: 3
Thomas LeuthardPhotography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. Votes: 3
John RothensteinPhotography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. Votes: 3
Mia WasikowskaPhotography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't. Votes: 3
David HockneyPhotography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself. Votes: 3
Sune Rose WagnerPhotography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. Votes: 3
Jacques-Henri LartiguePhotography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see. Votes: 3
Berenice AbbottPhotography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Votes: 3
Walter SickertPhotography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously. Votes: 3
Raghubir SinghPhotography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Votes: 3
Berenice AbbottPhotography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. Votes: 3
Nigel DennisPhotography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. Votes: 3
Judith ButlerPhotography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. Votes: 3
Garry WinograndPhotography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes. Votes: 3
Marc RiboudPhotography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light. Votes: 3
Kevin RussoPhotography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. Votes: 3
Edward WestonPhotography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography. Votes: 3
William J. MitchellPhotography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. Votes: 3
Heinrich HeinePhotography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything. Votes: 3
Anton CorbijnPhotography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! Votes: 3
Bill BrandtPhotography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry. Votes: 3
Annie LeibovitzThe Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. Votes: 3
Henri Cartier-BressonPhotography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards. Votes: 3
Charles SheelerPhotography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. Votes: 3
Paul ValeryPhotography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me. Votes: 3
Don McCullinPhotography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well. Votes: 3
Jerry SaltzPhotography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. Votes: 3
John GossagePhotography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul. Votes: 3
Inge MorathPhotography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. Votes: 3
Alfred StieglitzPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Votes: 3
Ansel AdamsPhotography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. Votes: 3
Alexander RodchenkoPhotography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures. Votes: 3
Todd WalkerPhotography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. Votes: 3
Jeffrey KlugerPhotography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems. Votes: 3
Martha RoslerPhotography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. Votes: 3
Elliott ErwittPhotography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do. Votes: 3
Diane ArbusPhotography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. Votes: 3
Matthew ModinePhotography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are. Votes: 3
David DoubiletOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. Votes: 2
Dorothea LangeThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Votes: 2
Dorothea LangeThe single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! Votes: 2
Ansel AdamsFor me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. Votes: 2
Henri Cartier-BressonNo place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Votes: 2
Robert AdamsIn photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Votes: 1
Alfred StieglitzI love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling. Votes: 0
Ryan LewisThe invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. Votes: 0
Laszlo Moholy-NagyAny familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. Votes: 0
Martha RoslerIn my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. Votes: 0
William Albert AllardIn many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. Votes: 0
Harold Eugene EdgertonEveryone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. Votes: 0
Martin ParrNowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. Votes: 0
Mary Ellen MarkI am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. Votes: 0
William LandayThe creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography. Votes: 0
Jerry UelsmannI love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonThere is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop Votes: 0
Tyra BanksTo some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia. Votes: 0
Rene BurriPeople think photography is about photographing. To me, itâs about relationships. Votes: 0
Lynsey AddarioPhotographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. Votes: 0
Ralph SteinerIt's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. Votes: 0
Kiera CassThe photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. Votes: 0
Laszlo Moholy-NagyPainting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. Votes: 0
Dianna AgronI started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Votes: 0
Brendan FletcherI'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. Votes: 0
Mia WasikowskaThe fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. Votes: 0
Edward RuschaIn the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. Votes: 0
Abigail Solomon-GodeauThere is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography. Votes: 0
Manuel Alvarez BravoI love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do. Votes: 0
Gianni VersaceI talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand. Votes: 0
Bill JayIn the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman. Votes: 0
Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work. Votes: 0
Robert BarryI have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. Votes: 0
Hanneli MustapartaI was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background. Votes: 0
Gia CoppolaI am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. Votes: 0
Sebastiao SalgadoMy sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography. Votes: 0
Jerome LieblingIdeally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. Votes: 0
John BaldessariI believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. Votes: 0
Josef SudekA lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. Votes: 0
Stephen ShoreThere is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThe really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films. Votes: 0
Anton CorbijnHe was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography. Votes: 0
John SextonAs you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently. Votes: 0
Annie LeibovitzProbably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. Votes: 0
John BaldessariThis industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireGenerally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. Votes: 0
Herb RittsTo me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression. Votes: 0
Eikoh HosoeThere is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. Votes: 0
Galen RowellDon't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningMy interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. Votes: 0
Parker StevensonMy interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture Votes: 0
Parker StevensonI don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history. Votes: 0
Gilles PeressI turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture. Votes: 0
Sarah CharlesworthThere's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. Votes: 0
Freeman PattersonYou don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography. Votes: 0
Seamus McGarveyThe photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. Votes: 0
Garry WinograndIt's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. Votes: 0
Elliott ErwittDon't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography? Votes: 0
Nobuyoshi ArakiIn the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. Votes: 0
James WilsonI have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoThere are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste Votes: 0
Helmut NewtonI love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. Votes: 0
Sarah SuttonIn photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. Votes: 0
Thomas RuffThe clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. Votes: 0
Antonia FraserThere is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world. Votes: 0
Luc DelahayeThere is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops. Votes: 0
David HockneyThe other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Votes: 0
Sol LeWittIn the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world. Votes: 0
Graciela IturbideThe secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. Votes: 0
Walker EvansIn photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonWhat makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. Votes: 0
John BergerIf there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed. Votes: 0
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of SnowdonI wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. Votes: 0
Jean-Marc BustamanteI believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance. Votes: 0
Sarah MoonIf I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. Votes: 0
Jessica LangeWhether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. Votes: 0
Christophe AgouWe rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. Votes: 0
Robert AdamsWhat inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. Votes: 0
Jillian BarberieI love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative. Votes: 0
Diandra AsbatyTo make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. Votes: 0
Friedrich DurrenmattI was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. Votes: 0
Thomas F. WilsonMachines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. Votes: 0
Paul GauguinI always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. Votes: 0
Bruce GildenI used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. Votes: 0
Lewis BaltzFor me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. Votes: 0
Wynn BullockI love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. Votes: 0
Winona RyderRichard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. Votes: 0
Donatella VersaceAs Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. Votes: 0
Roland BarthesThe problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Votes: 0
Gabriel LippmannI don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better. Votes: 0
Nan GoldinNow people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest. Votes: 0
Peter LindberghI don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is. Votes: 0
Matthew ModineOf course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. Votes: 0
Sebastiao SalgadoAs every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. Votes: 0
Robert GennI worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film. Votes: 0
Ori GershtI try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. Votes: 0
James NachtweyI try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean. Votes: 0
Tom GruberOf all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonI have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Votes: 0
Edvard MunchOne reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. Votes: 0
Cindy ShermanI'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography. Votes: 0
Ryan McGinleyI don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal. Votes: 0
Horst P. HorstI didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. Votes: 0
Steven SebringIn the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death, Votes: 0
Nobuyoshi ArakiIt is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop Votes: 0
Auguste RodinI use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. Votes: 0
Trent ParkeIt's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. Votes: 0
Val KilmerI like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well . Votes: 0
Zoe KravitzAs much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure. Votes: 0
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