On Photography Quotes

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

I've been working with photography for many years.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

Nobody can commit photography alone.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.

None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

Students were taught by doing.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

The best photographs are made by the best people.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

...everything looks worse in black and white.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.