Photography Quotes - Page 10

• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

  Edward Steichen

  Art, Ideas, Giving

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• Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

  Bill Brandt

  Dare, Mediums, Stills

  "Do writers' photographs show a side of their character not revealed in their books?" by William Dalrymple, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2016.

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• The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.

  Wynn Bullock

  Eye, Past, Light

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• Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

  William Eggleston

  People, Answers, Today

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• You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

  Eve Arnold

  Magic, Musician, Photographer

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• While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Eye, Perspective

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• 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.

  Edward Steichen

  Men, Sky, Confusion

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, People

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• Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Mean, Sky, Mind

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

  John Berger

  Inspirational, Light, Raw Materials

  John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Real, Light, Branches

  Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

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• Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stories, Literature, Should

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• The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Cameras, Photographer

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• Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

  Nickolas Muray

  People, Records, Human Nature

  Nickolas Muray (1978). “Muray's celebrity portraits of the twenties and thirties: 135 photographs”, Dover Pubns

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

  Annie Leibovitz

  Thinking, Computer, Chemicals

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• 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.

  John Sexton

  Magic, Photographer, Moments

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• No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

  Minor White

  Long, Matter, Spirit

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• A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

  Ansel Adams

  Photographer, Digital Photography, Photograph

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• The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

  Diane Arbus

  Photographer

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

  Edward Weston

  Matter, Photographer, Corny

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

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• I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

  Bill Brandt

  Sports, Conventions, Not Interested

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• I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

  Pablo Picasso

  I Can

  Anne Baldassari, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997). “Picasso and photography: the dark mirror”, Flammarion-Pere Castor

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• What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Shapes, Rhythm, Values

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• Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

  Cornell Capa

  Art, Men, Capacity

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

  Andre Bazin

  Art, Doe, Corruption

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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