Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

On Photography Quotes

Find the best On Photography quotes with images from our collection at QuotesLyfe. You can download, copy and even share it on Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Linkedin, Pinterst, Reddit, etc. with your family, friends, colleagues, etc. The available pictures of On Photography quotes can be used as your mobile or desktop wallpaper or screensaver. Also, remember to explore the On Photography quote of the day.


On Photography Quotes: "You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one."

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.



On Photography Quotes: "Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools."

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.




On Photography Quotes: "Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'."

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



On Photography Quotes: "I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs."

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.




On Photography Quotes: "One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language."

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



On Photography Quotes: "Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second."

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.



On Photography Quotes: "There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world."

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




On Photography Quotes: "In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion."

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is the product of complete alienation."

Photography is the product of complete alienation.



On Photography Quotes: "Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook."

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation."

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)"

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)




On Photography Quotes: "When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that."

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses."

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.



On Photography Quotes: "Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'."

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is painting with light"

Photography is painting with light



On Photography Quotes: "Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects."

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



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel."

Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.



On Photography Quotes: "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.



On Photography Quotes: "I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual."

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.



On Photography Quotes: "My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue."

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them."

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.



On Photography Quotes: "Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us."

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



On Photography Quotes: "Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?"

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?



On Photography Quotes: "The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning."

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.



On Photography Quotes: "The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself."

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.



On Photography Quotes: "[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)"

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)



On Photography Quotes: "Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world"

Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world



On Photography Quotes: "Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole."

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.



On Photography Quotes: "The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth."

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.



On Photography Quotes: "If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it."

If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.



On Photography Quotes: "By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous."

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



On Photography Quotes: "As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master."

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



On Photography Quotes: "Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new"

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new



On Photography Quotes: "You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it."

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.



On Photography Quotes: "Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive."

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.



On Photography Quotes: "My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night."

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.



On Photography Quotes: "I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art."

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.



On Photography Quotes: "I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography."

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.



On Photography Quotes: "If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!"

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!



On Photography Quotes: "No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way."

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.



On Photography Quotes: "Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile."

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.



On Photography Quotes: "The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.



On Photography Quotes: "A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once."

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.



On Photography Quotes: "So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.



On Photography Quotes: "Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me."

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



On Photography Quotes: "I really got into filmmaking through photography."

I really got into filmmaking through photography.



On Photography Quotes: "When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T."

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.



On Photography Quotes: "When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography."

When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.