Photography Quotes - Page 38

• True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

  Bill Jay

  Artist, Photographer

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

  Bill Jay

  Artist, Opportunity, Advice

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• If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.

  Bill Jay

  Thinking, People, Say Anything

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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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• ...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.

  Bill Jay

  Feet, Views, Expression

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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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• Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

  Bill Jay

  Cheese, Photographer

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• If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.

  Bill Jay

  Bored, Knowledgeable, Enthusiastic

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• Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.

  Bill Jay

  Eye, World, Littles

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• But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.

  Bill Jay

  Thinking, Way, Misplaced

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• My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

  Bill Jay

  Photograph, Interpretation, Subjective

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• ...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

  Bill Jay

  Type, Genesis, Subjects

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• We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Communication, Thinking, Our Society

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

  Bill Jay

  Museums, Rigor, Given

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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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