On Photography Quotes

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

Photography has no dark sides!

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

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

But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

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

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

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

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

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

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

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

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

Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

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

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

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

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

I've got a great collection of photography.

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

I came to photography by accident.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

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

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.