Photography Quotes - Page 21

• To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

  Paul Valery

  Names, Vision, Forget

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• The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

  Emmet Gowin

  Challenges, Feelings, Photographer

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• Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.

  Andreas Feininger

  Depth, Looks, Photographer

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

  Joyce Tenneson

  People, Feelings, World

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• The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Creative, Photographer, Celebration

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• The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Art, Invention, Canon

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• One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Crazy, Passion, Being Real

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• One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Photographer, Reason

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

  Linda Palmer

  Lying, Photographer, Don't Lie

  Linda Palmer (2005). “Love Her to Death”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

  Lee Friedlander

  Cameras, Doe, Different

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• I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

  John Sexton

  Tools, Photographer, Trash

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• Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

  John Sexton

  Gelatin, Needs, Levels

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• What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Seems

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

  Brent Stirton

  Witness

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• To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

  Robert Doisneau

  Education

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• A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

  Edward Steichen

  Photographer, Thousand, Ten

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• What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

  John Szarkowski

  Cat, Thinking, Years

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• My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.

  Brett Weston

  Feelings, Facts, Yaks

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• Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

  Lisette Model

  Art, Today, Fundamentals

  Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada

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• Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

  Lisette Model

  Understanding, Photographer, Projection

  Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada

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• I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?

  Lisette Model

  Ambition, People, Looks

  Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada

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• Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

  Brassai

  Painting, Conscience

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• Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

  Don McCullin

  Eye, Thinking, Fishing

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• Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

  Don McCullin

  Has Beens, Generous

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• I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?

  Don McCullin

  Names, Asking, Done

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