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On Photography Quotes: "As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking."

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle."

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.




On Photography Quotes: "My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown."

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.



On Photography Quotes: "I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation."

I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.




On Photography Quotes: "What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you."

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.



On Photography Quotes: "The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal."

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.



On Photography Quotes: "A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability."

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.




On Photography Quotes: "I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that."

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.



On Photography Quotes: "I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation."

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.



On Photography Quotes: "People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.



On Photography Quotes: "Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through."

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.



On Photography Quotes: "On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet."

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.




On Photography Quotes: "I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do."

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.



On Photography Quotes: "In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun."

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.



On Photography Quotes: "I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination."

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.



On Photography Quotes: "How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?"

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?



On Photography Quotes: "Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy."

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness."

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.



On Photography Quotes: "My father did advertising photography."

My father did advertising photography.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made."

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.



On Photography Quotes: "...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum."

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.



On Photography Quotes: "All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button."

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.



On Photography Quotes: "Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button."

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.



On Photography Quotes: "[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love."

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.



On Photography Quotes: "I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you."

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.



On Photography Quotes: "A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get."

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.



On Photography Quotes: "If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed."

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.



On Photography Quotes: "We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually."

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.



On Photography Quotes: "If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history."

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.



On Photography Quotes: "Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese."

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.



On Photography Quotes: "Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom."

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth."

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.



On Photography Quotes: "I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter."

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.



On Photography Quotes: "Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface."

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.



On Photography Quotes: "I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art."

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is a very important part of my life."

Photography is a very important part of my life.



On Photography Quotes: "As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image."

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.



On Photography Quotes: "Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer."

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.



On Photography Quotes: "The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others."

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually."

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.



On Photography Quotes: "And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery."

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.



On Photography Quotes: "The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything."

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses."

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it."

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.



On Photography Quotes: "...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context."

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.



On Photography Quotes: "Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today."

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.



On Photography Quotes: "I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure."

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.



On Photography Quotes: "My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature."

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.



On Photography Quotes: "You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it."

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.