Photography Quotes

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

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.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

I had been teaching myself photography.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

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.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.