Photography Quotes

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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.

I've got a great collection of photography.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

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.