Quotes
Quotes about Photography
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my timeâthis art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to doâthat was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
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 ordinary.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.
If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etchingâthere would be a vast improvement in total output.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to doâthat was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
