Quotes about Photography

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. Votes: 5

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Votes: 5

Photography is truth. Votes: 4

Photography threatens fantasy. Votes: 3

Photography is an accident. Votes: 3

Photography is my passion. Votes: 3

Photography has no dark sides! Votes: 3

Photography is my only language. Votes: 3

Photography helps people to see. Votes: 3

Photography is painting with light Votes: 3

Photography has not invented anything. Votes: 3

Photography is all about the perspective! Votes: 3

Photography is about being exquisitely present. Votes: 3

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture. Votes: 3

Photography is just light remembering itself. Votes: 3

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture. Votes: 3

Photography has taken me from isolation. Votes: 3

Photography is an act of love. Votes: 3

Photography is a generous medium… Votes: 3

Photography was my choice of weapons. Votes: 3

Photography is the product of complete alienation. Votes: 3

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. Votes: 3

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations. Votes: 3

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance. Votes: 3

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Votes: 3

Photography is a form of time travel. Votes: 3

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction. Votes: 3

Photography is a love affair with life. Votes: 3

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance. Votes: 3

Photography must be integrated with the story. Votes: 3

Photography is not something you retire from. Votes: 3

Photography is an empathy towards the world. Votes: 3

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me. Votes: 3

Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Votes: 3

Photography is a language more universal than words. Votes: 3

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life. Votes: 3

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby. Votes: 3

Photography just gets us out of the house. Votes: 3

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone. Votes: 3

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks. Votes: 3

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. Votes: 3

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed. Votes: 3

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. Votes: 3

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. Votes: 3

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!! Votes: 3

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset. Votes: 3

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck. Votes: 3

Photography is the art of not pushing the button. Votes: 3

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. Votes: 3

Photography begins not in the camera but in the Votes: 3

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war. Votes: 3

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing. Votes: 3

Photography has saved my life, over and over again. Votes: 3

Photography is art when it's used by an artist. Votes: 3

Photography is a very important part of my life. Votes: 3

Photography is like an open book to the world. Votes: 3

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. Votes: 3

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression. Votes: 3

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. Votes: 3

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition. Votes: 3

But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing! Votes: 3

Photography is the story I fail to put into words. Votes: 3

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. Votes: 3

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. Votes: 3

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. Votes: 3

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second. Votes: 3

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people. Votes: 3

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future. Votes: 3

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. Votes: 3

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest. Votes: 3

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. Votes: 3

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. Votes: 3

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. Votes: 3

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images. Votes: 3

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. Votes: 3

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. Votes: 3

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually. Votes: 3

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving. Votes: 3

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth. Votes: 3

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge. Votes: 3

Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you. Votes: 3

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood. Votes: 3

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality. Votes: 3

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact. Votes: 3

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life. Votes: 3

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. Votes: 3

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. Votes: 3

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography. Votes: 3

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. Votes: 3

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. Votes: 3

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. Votes: 3

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport. Votes: 3

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. Votes: 3

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person. Votes: 3

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work. Votes: 3

Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say. Votes: 3

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death. Votes: 3

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. Votes: 3

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. Votes: 3

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand. Votes: 3

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it... Votes: 3

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. Votes: 3

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. Votes: 3

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't. Votes: 3

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself. Votes: 3

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. Votes: 3

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. Votes: 3

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see. Votes: 3

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Votes: 3

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle. Votes: 3

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare. Votes: 3

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. Votes: 3

Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously. Votes: 3

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Votes: 3

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. Votes: 3

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. Votes: 3

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. Votes: 3

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes. Votes: 3

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. Votes: 3

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light. Votes: 3

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. Votes: 3

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography. Votes: 3

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. Votes: 3

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything. Votes: 3

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! Votes: 3

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry. Votes: 3

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. Votes: 3

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards. Votes: 3

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose. Votes: 3

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. Votes: 3

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me. Votes: 3

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. Votes: 3

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well. Votes: 3

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. Votes: 3

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul. Votes: 3

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. Votes: 3

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Votes: 3

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. Votes: 3

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures. Votes: 3

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. Votes: 3

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. Votes: 3

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems. Votes: 3

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay. Votes: 3

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. Votes: 3

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. Votes: 3

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do. Votes: 3

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference. Votes: 3

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. Votes: 3

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. Votes: 3

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below. Votes: 3

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. Votes: 3

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. Votes: 3

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'. Votes: 3

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well. Votes: 3

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it. Votes: 3

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun. Votes: 3

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. Votes: 3

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. Votes: 3

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to. Votes: 3

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession. Votes: 3

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are. Votes: 3

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. Votes: 3

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. Votes: 3

Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations. Votes: 3

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live. Votes: 3

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. Votes: 3

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. Votes: 3

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved. Votes: 3

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. Votes: 3

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. Votes: 3

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. Votes: 3

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. Votes: 3

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Votes: 2

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Votes: 2

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Votes: 2

The important thing is not the camera but the eye. Votes: 2

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. Votes: 2

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic. Votes: 2

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. Votes: 2

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Votes: 2

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. Votes: 2

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time. Votes: 2

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. Votes: 2

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Votes: 2

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! Votes: 2

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. Votes: 2

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. Votes: 2

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Votes: 2

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever. Votes: 2

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. Votes: 2

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography. Votes: 2

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. Votes: 2

Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty. Votes: 2

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. Votes: 1

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. Votes: 1

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language. Votes: 1

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Votes: 1

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Votes: 1

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. Votes: 1

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream. Votes: 1

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Votes: 1

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves. Votes: 1

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. Votes: 1

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Votes: 1

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. Votes: 1

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones. Votes: 1

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. Votes: 1

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Votes: 1

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. Votes: 1

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. Votes: 1

Instantaneity is photography. Votes: 0

All photography is propaganda. Votes: 0

Good photography is unpretentious. Votes: 0

My father did advertising photography. Votes: 0

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Votes: 0

Nobody can commit photography alone. Votes: 0

I never really learned photography. Votes: 0

Bad weather makes for good photography. Votes: 0

I came to photography by accident. Votes: 0

I had been teaching myself photography. Votes: 0

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting. Votes: 0

I really got into filmmaking through photography. Votes: 0

My only interest in photographing is photography. Votes: 0

I have gradually confused photography with life. Votes: 0

I just love the world of photography. Votes: 0

Working on photography is working on oneself. Votes: 0

News photography teaches you to think fast. Votes: 0

Grain is the brush stroke of photography. Votes: 0

You don't study photography, you do it Votes: 0

The fight for photography became my life. Votes: 0

I've got a great collection of photography. Votes: 0

Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd. Votes: 0

Essentially what photography is is life lit up. Votes: 0

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair. Votes: 0

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography. Votes: 0

You don't study photography, you just do it. Votes: 0

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis. Votes: 0

I get so confused about life photography art. Votes: 0

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile. Votes: 0

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. Votes: 0

I've been working with photography for many years. Votes: 0

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom? Votes: 0

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography. Votes: 0

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine. Votes: 0

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. Votes: 0

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back. Votes: 0

There are rules about perception, but not about photography. Votes: 0

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography. Votes: 0

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. Votes: 0

Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving. Votes: 0

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. Votes: 0

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive. Votes: 0

The camera is the least important element in photography. Votes: 0

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain. Votes: 0

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time. Votes: 0

I wanted to go to the end of photography. Votes: 0

I think I came alive when I started photography. Votes: 0

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' Votes: 0

The only way to kill death is through photography. Votes: 0

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography, Votes: 0

Great photography is always on the edge of failure. Votes: 0

Only photography has been able to divide human life Votes: 0

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography. Votes: 0

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. Votes: 0

The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard. Votes: 0

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being. Votes: 0

...photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident. Votes: 0

I know about photography - I'm really good at it. Votes: 0

I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control. Votes: 0

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. Votes: 0

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography. Votes: 0

The craft of photography is the key to good images. Votes: 0

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors. Votes: 0

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough. Votes: 0

A career in photography is a journey without a destination. Votes: 0

For me, moving from photography to film was very easy. Votes: 0

I love photography, and I love the art of photography. Votes: 0

Light is one of the most important factors in photography. Votes: 0

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography. Votes: 0

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture. Votes: 0

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic. Votes: 0

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography. Votes: 0

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling. Votes: 0

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. Votes: 0

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience. Votes: 0

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous. Votes: 0

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. Votes: 0

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological. Votes: 0

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. Votes: 0

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts. Votes: 0

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. Votes: 0

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. Votes: 0

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it. Votes: 0

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning Votes: 0

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory. Votes: 0

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. Votes: 0

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. Votes: 0

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image. Votes: 0

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. Votes: 0

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. Votes: 0

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. Votes: 0

The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic. Votes: 0

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. Votes: 0

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. Votes: 0

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. Votes: 0

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. Votes: 0

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. Votes: 0

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. Votes: 0

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography. Votes: 0

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography. Votes: 0

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. Votes: 0

I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them. Votes: 0

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me... Votes: 0

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop Votes: 0

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia. Votes: 0

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. Votes: 0

I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion. Votes: 0

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures. Votes: 0

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life. Votes: 0

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST. Votes: 0

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes. Votes: 0

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment. Votes: 0

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace, Votes: 0

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships. Votes: 0

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. Votes: 0

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. Votes: 0

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. Votes: 0

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. Votes: 0

It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. Votes: 0

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. Votes: 0

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. Votes: 0

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. Votes: 0

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration. Votes: 0

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. Votes: 0

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. Votes: 0

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography. Votes: 0

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems. Votes: 0

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Votes: 0

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. Votes: 0

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person. Votes: 0

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive Votes: 0

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer. Votes: 0

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. Votes: 0

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. Votes: 0

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. Votes: 0

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography. Votes: 0

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. Votes: 0

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set. Votes: 0

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do. Votes: 0

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand. Votes: 0

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman. Votes: 0

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work. Votes: 0

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. Votes: 0

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background. Votes: 0

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. Votes: 0

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. Votes: 0

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography. Votes: 0

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form! Votes: 0

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. Votes: 0

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. Votes: 0

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me. Votes: 0

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things. Votes: 0

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. Votes: 0

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad. Votes: 0

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. Votes: 0

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself. Votes: 0

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. Votes: 0

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films. Votes: 0

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up. Votes: 0

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography. Votes: 0

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. Votes: 0

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently. Votes: 0

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images. Votes: 0

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. Votes: 0

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. Votes: 0

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy. Votes: 0

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. Votes: 0

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression. Votes: 0

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. Votes: 0

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? Votes: 0

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. Votes: 0

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture Votes: 0

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history. Votes: 0

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture. Votes: 0

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. Votes: 0

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography. Votes: 0

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet. Votes: 0

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me Votes: 0

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. Votes: 0

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. Votes: 0

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. Votes: 0

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography? Votes: 0

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. Votes: 0

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. Votes: 0

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste Votes: 0

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. Votes: 0

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. Votes: 0

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. Votes: 0

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. Votes: 0

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops. Votes: 0

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Votes: 0

Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography. Votes: 0

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world. Votes: 0

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. Votes: 0

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical. Votes: 0

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. Votes: 0

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey. Votes: 0

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. Votes: 0

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about. Votes: 0

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. Votes: 0

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. Votes: 0

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. Votes: 0

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed. Votes: 0

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. Votes: 0

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance. Votes: 0

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. Votes: 0

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. Votes: 0

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. Votes: 0

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. Votes: 0

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative. Votes: 0

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. Votes: 0

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. Votes: 0

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. Votes: 0

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. Votes: 0

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. Votes: 0

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. Votes: 0

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings. Votes: 0

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. Votes: 0

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation Votes: 0

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing? Votes: 0

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. Votes: 0

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. Votes: 0

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. Votes: 0

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me. Votes: 0

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. Votes: 0

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. Votes: 0

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. Votes: 0

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. Votes: 0

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Votes: 0

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better. Votes: 0

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest. Votes: 0

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is. Votes: 0

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. Votes: 0

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. Votes: 0

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. Votes: 0

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself Votes: 0

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. Votes: 0

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. Votes: 0

Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem. Votes: 0

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession. Votes: 0

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. Votes: 0

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies. Votes: 0

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. Votes: 0

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film. Votes: 0

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. Votes: 0

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean. Votes: 0

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. Votes: 0

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Votes: 0

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. Votes: 0

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. Votes: 0

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing. Votes: 0

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. Votes: 0

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies. Votes: 0

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours. Votes: 0

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. Votes: 0

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you. Votes: 0

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you. Votes: 0

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography. Votes: 0

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up. Votes: 0

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers. Votes: 0

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal. Votes: 0

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. Votes: 0

When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital. Votes: 0

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K. Votes: 0

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. Votes: 0

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death, Votes: 0

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop Votes: 0

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. Votes: 0

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. Votes: 0

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality. Votes: 0

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. Votes: 0

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. Votes: 0

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well . Votes: 0

I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself. Votes: 0

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art. Votes: 0

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure. Votes: 0

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images. Votes: 0

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. Votes: 0

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing. Votes: 0

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring. Votes: 0

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all. Votes: 0

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye. Votes: 0

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself. Votes: 0

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it. Votes: 0

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. Votes: 0

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot. Votes: 0

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing. Votes: 0

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be. Votes: 0

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. Votes: 0