Photography Quotes - page 6

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling. (Ryan Lewis)
I had been teaching myself photography. View quote
Ree Drummond
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. View quote
Sam Abell
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. View quote
Sam Abell
One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones. View quote
Sunidhi Chauhan
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams. View quote
Tim Walker
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. View quote
Teju Cole
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. View quote
William Albert Allard
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. View quote
Don McCullin
The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias. (Susan Sontag)
The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown. View quote
Susan Sontag
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
But with photography as with drawing or painting, once it is done I want to know whether it holds together or not. That is the real critique. I couldn't care less if the person to whom I show what I do likes it or not - it takes all sorts to make a world and all that. To criticize is to put oneself in someone else's shoes and try to figure out what they wanted to do. Only the "why” of things is important to me. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography has never been a problem for me, [what is important] is looking, the way of looking, of questioning with your eyes: I don't think; I am impulsive, it is /looking/ that's important, not photography. Now, since I have started drawing, I've merely switched tools, but it is still looking that's important. To look the right way, one should learn to become a deaf-mute. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
This book [Zen in the Art of Archery], by Herrigel, which I discovered a few years ago, seems to me fundamental to our profession as photographers. Matisse wrote similarly about drawing: set a discipline, make rigor a rule, forget oneself completely. And in photography the attitude must be the same: detach oneself, do not try to prove anything at all. My sense of freedom is the same: a frame that allows any variation. This is the basis of Zen Buddhism, the evidence: that you go in with great force and then you succeed in forgetting yourself. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
I hate looking at photography books or illustrated magazines. This is not because of contempt. I'd rather look at contact sheets: that is where you can sense the individual. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
There are photographers who invent, others who discover. Personally, I am interested in discoveries, not for the trials or experiences but to capture life itself. I flee from the dangers of the anecdote and the picturesque, which are very easy and better than sensational, but quite as bad. To my mind, photography has the power to evoke, and must not simply document. We have to be abstract, just like nature. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography has fulfilled my adventurous side: it is a real trade. I behaved like a thief in every country where I went, in China, in Africa, in America... all things considered, our trade is situated somewhere between pickpocket and tightrope walker... yes, we steal from people, we take something that belongs to them: their image, their culture. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is solitary work. There is emulation. It is interesting to know what other people do. Even so, writers do not read everything that is published. A painter does not look at everything. You have to choose. It's reality, it's life that is important. We shouldn't be sniffing around each other all the time, looking.... (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
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. View quote
David Hockney
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. View quote
David Hockney
I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
I've been working with photography for many years. View quote
Leonard Nimoy