On Photography Quotes

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

I had been teaching myself photography.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

I like photographers-you don't ask questions.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I always said 'yes' to everything.

Everything is one and I am one with it.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

You photograph with all your ideology.

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

As the oldest I was a daddys girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.