Art Photography Quotes - Page 2

• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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  One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Reality, Cameras

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

  Ansel Adams

  Music, Photography, Art

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• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Insightful, Nikon

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• While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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• Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Night

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• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Inspiration, Technique

  "Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons (p. 80), 1966.

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

  John Steinbeck

  Photography, Hate, Cameras

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.65, Penguin

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• Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

  Ken Rockwell

  Photography, Eye, Artist

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• Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Hard Work, Matter

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Taken, Photographer

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• There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Photography, Looks, Faces

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• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Adventure, People

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• ... 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Purpose

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.129, Macmillan

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• Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, Art, Black And White

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Photography, Art, Real

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• The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Art, Practice

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• When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

  Tim Walker

  Photography, Dream, Fashion

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• I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

  William Landay

  Photography, Art, Technology

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• It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.

  Kate Morton

  Photography, Art, Memories

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.

  Jillian Barberie

  Photography, Art, Kids

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