Photography Quotes

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

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My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

Rene Burri

MomentPhotographyResultBeing There

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

PowerYourselfProblemsPhotography

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.

Rene Burri

ManMeThinkPhotographyYouGo

I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.

Leonard Nimoy

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I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.

Killer Mike

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I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

Jesse Johnson

MusicMyselfMeWritingPhotography

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Julian Schnabel

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

TimeArtLightPhotographyStrange

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

James Gray

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My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

Andres Serrano

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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Matthew Modine

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I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

Gia Coppola

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I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

Jeff Bridges

PictureCameraPhotographyLookLink

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

Gerard Malanga

NatureMePhotographyLookBackSee

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

John Sexton

SoulPhotographyGenerousDedicated

I got started on YouTube when I was a freshman in college. I was a broadcast journalism major, and I already had a lot of experience with video editing and photography.

Eva Gutowski

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Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Stephen Sprouse

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I've got a great collection of photography.

Elton John

GreatPhotographyGotCollection

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke

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People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

David Hockney

ArtPeopleMePhotographySaid

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Mary Ellen Mark

PaintingWritingThinkPhotography

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

David Furnish

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