Photography Quotes - Page 17

• Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

  Marc Riboud

  Inspirational, Life, Photographer

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• Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Inspiration, Information, Photographer

  "Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 80, 1966.

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• To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

  Stephen Shore

  Vision, Ordinary, Routine

  "Stephen Shore's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Ideas, Focus

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Inspiration, Curves, Light

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• As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Names, Matter, Facts

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• Available light is any damn light that is available!

  W. Eugene Smith

  Light, Photographer, Damn

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• A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

  Richard Avedon

  Real, Portraits, Doe

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• A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

  Richard Avedon

  Portraits, Fiction, Photographer

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• "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

  Ansel Adams

  Dream, Moving, Eye

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• The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

  Ansel Adams

  Simple, Technique, Operations

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• To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

  Cole Weston

  Mean, Color, Trying

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• There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

  Garry Winogrand

  Facts, Mysterious

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• Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.

  Richard Avedon

  Art, Children, Trying

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• A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.

  Wynn Bullock

  Thinking, Sculpture, Photographer

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.

  Wynn Bullock

  Art, Creativity, Space

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

  John Loengard

  Beautiful, Thinking, Looks

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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

  Matthew Modine

  Light, Negative, Doe

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• Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Humanity, Body, Lows

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• The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

  Robert Capa

  Truth Is, Best Picture, Propaganda

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• Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Memes

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• My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Father, Artist, Thinking

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• The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clothes, Cameras, Asking

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• I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

  Ben Shahn

  Sketching, Found, My Own

  "Ben Shahn".

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• It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photographer, Persons

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