Photography Quotes - Page 37

• Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.

  Bill Jay

  Light, Two, Firsts

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• The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

  Bill Jay

  Way, Fields, Photographer

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• At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

  Bill Jay

  Eggs, Exhibitions, Necks

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• Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

  Bill Jay

  Writing, Photographer, Shut Up

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• 'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

  Bill Jay

  Cameras, Models

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• Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

  Bill Jay

  Two, Choices, Opinion

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• A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

  Bill Jay

  Mirrors, Prejudice, Viewers

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• Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

  Bill Jay

  Photographer, Unreality, Visible

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• I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

  Bill Jay

  Common Sense, Wish, Overrated

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• A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

  Bill Jay

  Photographer, Killing

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• I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

  Bill Jay

  Cameras, Coffins, Camera Obscura

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• When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

  Bill Jay

  Thinking, Graffiti, Plant

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• I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

  Bill Jay

  Projects, Seems

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• Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

  Bill Jay

  Kids, Photographer, Should

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• Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

  Bill Jay

  Predator, Photographer, Prey

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• Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

  Bill Jay

  Art, Successful, Want

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• I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up.

  Bill Jay

  Print

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• Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

  Bill Jay

  Artist, Opportunity, Advice

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• A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

  Bill Jay

  True Or False, Depiction, Hard

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• Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.

  Bill Jay

  Taken, Hard Work, Caring

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• I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

  Anton Yelchin

  Film, Mediums, Extensions

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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

  Robert Barry

  Use, Stills, Documents

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

  Matthea Harvey

  Class, Trying, Use

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Writing, Thinking, Doctors

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

  Abigail Spencer

  Paris, Instagram, Photographer

  "Origin Series: Mad Men and True Detective actor Abigail Spencer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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