Photography Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

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.

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

Photography must be integrated with the story.

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

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

I've been working with photography for many years.