Art Photography Quotes

Art Photography Quote of the day

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

The camera basically is a license to explore.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

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

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

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

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life.

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

Art is unpredictable.

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.