Thomas Roma Quotes

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

  Thomas Roma

  Photography, Trying, Form

  Interview with Alex Klein, Bettina Shzu, www.museomagazine.com. 2000.

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• Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.

  Thomas Roma

  Done, Buttons, Imagine

  Interview with Alex Klein & Bettina Shzu, www.museomagazine.com. 2000.

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• The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices.

  Thomas Roma

  Photography, Mean, Choices

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• I approached photography the only way that I knew how to approach anything: as a job. I would get up, photograph all morning, stop and have lunch, and then, photograph all afternoon. I didn't think that I had to wait for some inspiration.

  Thomas Roma

  Photography, Morning, Jobs

  Interview with Alex Klein, Bettina Shzu, www.museomagazine.com. 2000.

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