Photography Quotes
- Page 5A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
Roman Jakobson
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
Ben Shahn
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Tony Benn
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Nigel Dennis
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
Annie Leibovitz
Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.
Pieter Zeeman
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Spike Lee
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
Sarah Sutton
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.
George Lucas
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.
Graeme Le Saux
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
Ben Shahn
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann
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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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.
Sydney Pollack
I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
Matthew Modine
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Edward Steichen
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.
Nikki Sixx
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.
Alfred Eisenstaedt