Photography Quotes

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

John Sexton

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I came to photography by accident.

Eve Arnold

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Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

Stanley Kubrick

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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Duane Michals

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Tony Benn

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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

David Hockney

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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

Mary Ellen Mark

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As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.

David Allee

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In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

Martin Parr

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The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.

Catherine Opie

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My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.

Lois Greenfield

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The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Alberto Korda

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I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.

Jordan Bridges

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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Teju Cole

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In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.

Don McCullin

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I had been teaching myself photography.

Ree Drummond

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In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

Drew Barrymore

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All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

Lauren Greenfield

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I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

Cole Sprouse

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When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

Katherine Waterston

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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

Brendan Fletcher

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When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.

Francois Nars

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Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Arnold Newman

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Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Edward Burtynsky

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