Photography Quotes

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Julian Lennon

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Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.

John Battelle

SpacePeopleFlyPhotographyDigital

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

James Nachtwey

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My father did advertising photography.

Andreas Gursky

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Speaking of photography, while the Apollo 8 crew shot hundreds of photos, there was one that got everybody's attention: a blue-and-white Earth rising over a gray moonscape.

Henry Spencer

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With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

EnergyShortPhotographyMomentsYou

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

Gia Coppola

StoryPhotographyYouSingleFrame

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Ernst Haas

YourselfCameraPhotographyYouSee

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

John Sexton

LifeLoveMy LifePhotographyStill

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.

Frans Lanting

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I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

Amanda de Cadenet

LovePeopleMeThinkPhotography

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Elliott Erwitt

QualityPhotographyImageEaseWhich

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Steve Sabol

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Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.

David Hewson

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A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson

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War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

David Douglas Duncan

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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Martin Parr

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The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the 'Beatles' especially, and then the 'Rolling Stones' and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our 'nouvelle vague' in Britain, films that talk about real life.

Charlotte Rampling

LifeMusicTimeFashionPhotography

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

Mickalene Thomas

TimeMomentPaintingPhotographyYou

The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.

Bill Cunningham

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I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Janet Weiss

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Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

Will Self

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I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

Don McCullin

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