Photography Quotes

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

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

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

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

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

Photography helps people to see.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

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.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

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.

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.

I had been teaching myself photography.