Photography Quotes

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

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.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

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

I just love the world of photography.

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

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

I've been working with photography for many years.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

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.

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

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

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

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

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 love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

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.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.