Photography Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.