Photograph Quotes - Page 40

• Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Culture, Done

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.30, MIT Press

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• I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

  Herb Ritts

  Ocean, Light, Space

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• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world

  Galen

  Philosophy, Mean, Artist

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• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

  Galen

  Spiritual, Distance, Emotional

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• Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

  Galen

  Artist, Years, People

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• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  Galen Rowell

  Real, Fighting, Artist

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• They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it's the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Past, Yesterday, Quality

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• It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover something in a photograph that is the key. The very doorway to your own interest.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Keys, Risk, Doorways

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• You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Real, Moving, Connections

  Joel Meyerowitz (1990). “Creating a sense of place”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Simple, Use, Decay

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• I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

  Kit Williams

  Writing, Ideas, Bored

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• Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

  David Amram

  July, Issues, Horny

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• I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Country, Avid, Trying

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• Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

  Walter Benjamin

  Truth, Writing, Self

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Wedding, Writing

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Harm

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Thinking, Artist

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• I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Artist, Long

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, People, Transactions

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

  Jock Sturges

  Taken, Artist, Misinterpretation

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

  F. L. Lucas

  Memories, Liars, Reading

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• It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Fun, Photographer, Marvelous

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• To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Reality

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• I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.

  Saul Leiter

  Fashion, Stars, Successful

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• If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

  Saul Leiter

  Would Be, Very Good, Ifs

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