P Quotes
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“Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.”
“Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.”
“Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.”
“Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.”
“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.”
“Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.”
Source: On photography
“Photography is an empathy towards the world.”
“Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.”
“Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.”
Source: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
“Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.”
“Photography is Art and Art is Photography.”
“Photography is art when it's used by an artist.”
“Photography is basically an art of arranging the angles!”
“Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.”
“Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.”
“Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.”
“Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.”
“Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.”
“Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.”
“Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.”
“Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.”
Source: The nature of photographs
“Photography is just light remembering itself.”
“Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.”
“Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.”
“Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.”
“Photography is like an open book to the world.”
“Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.”
“Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.”
“Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are very conscious of that,who find that terrifying.The thought that everyone,friend of foe,can get so close to you,look you straight in the eye and judge you without having any control over it or being able to respond.A part of them has become the property of the photographer.”
Source: Close-up
“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
Source: Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography
“Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.”
“Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.”
“Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered?”
“Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.”
“Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.”
Source: The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]
“Photography is my only language.”
“Photography is my passion.”
Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer
“Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality of images willfully directed by the artist.”
Source: Charles Sheeler: Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes [and] Charles Millard
“Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.”
Source: Charles Sheeler: Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes [and] Charles Millard
“Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!”
“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”
“Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.”
“Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.”
“Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.”
“Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.”
Source: A guide to better photography
“Photography is not something you retire from.”
“Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.”
“Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.”
Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer
“Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.”
Source: Paul Strand: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum