Photography Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

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.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

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.

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

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

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.

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.

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.

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.