On Photography Quotes

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

A good selfie is when you successfully capture the feeling of that very moment!

Photography is not something you retire from.

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

Be in love with the moments of your life.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

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.

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.

... 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.

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.