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“It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.”

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Ryan McGinley is an American photographer known for his works that focus on teenagers and natural landscapes. His photographs often have a dreamlike quality, capturing the carefree lifestyle of young people in natural settings. more

“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”

Ifs Art Real Literature Natural Support Return Photography Tasks Function Humble Stupidity Thanks Servant Multitudes Printing Shorthand

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”

Way Doe Subjects Painting Photography Photograph Drawing Visuals Interpretation Imitation Rendering Naturalist Visual Images

Book:About Looking

Source: About Looking

“The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.”

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“Photographing a cake can be art.”

Art Photography Cake

Author:Irving Penn

“The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.”

Ifs Figures Photography Clothes Asking Cameras Photograph Flesh

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.”

People Men Made Enough Whole Character Facts Faces Expression Goes On Offers Safe Photography Curiosity Satisfaction Revelations Anxious Presumption

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.”

Life Eye Advice Mouths

Book:Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs

Source: Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs

“I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.”

Men World Life Fame Envy

Author:Euripides

“I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.”

Inspirational Company Dance Kicks Buckets Closed Minded

Author:Tori Amos

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