On Photography Quotes

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.

I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up.

Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.

I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

I just love the world of photography.

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.

The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.

I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.