Photography Quotes

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

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

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

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.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

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

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.