On Photography Quotes

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing!

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

I get so confused about life photography art.

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

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

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

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

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

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The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?