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“The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.”

People Matter Strong Subjects Photography Photograph Surround Subject Matter Moron

Author:Andy Summers

“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.”

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Author:Jose Parla

“I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.”

Feels Firsts Children I Can Faces Values Brother Cameras Photograph Focused Innocence My Brother This Day

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“I personally prefer working digitally because it allows me to work quickly and cleanly. I don't have to buy paint or brushes or canvases, I don't have to wait for paintings to dry before sending them to clients, I don't have to photograph or scan my final work, and I can make edits immediately and easily.”

I Can Waiting Painting Paint Finals Photograph Dry Clients Brushes Edits

Author:Julie Dillon

“I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me what I was already suspecting, that she is extremely interesting. I have never seen a picture of her that conveys all of her complexity. That would be a fabulous challenge, to find that in a photograph.”

Would Be Film Next Challenges Interesting Mines Photograph Complexity Fabulous

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics.”

Art Stories Together Film Painting Photograph Drawing Narrative Telling Stories Drawing And Painting

Author:Dave McKean

“The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life.”

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Author:Alex Jones

“Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.”

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Author:Halton Arp

“...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.”

“I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.”

Stills Natural Love Is Environment Involved Photography Photograph Natural Environment

Author:John Sexton

“The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.”

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Author:John Sexton

“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.”

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Author:John Sexton

“"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "”

“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.”

Ifs Knows Needs Trying Wells Sometimes Hard Felt Process Enjoy Photography Photograph Best Picture

Author:John Sexton

“Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.”

Looks Two Steps Photography Photographer Photograph Wide Angle Lenses Camera Lenses

Author:Ernst Haas

“I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.”

Children Two Car Keys Photograph Houdini

Author:Steven Wright

“The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.”

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Book:Bamboo

Source: Bamboo

“During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.”

Use Poor Study Winter Photograph Work Out Drawing Weather

Author:John Dyer

“I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.”

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Author:John Sexton

“There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.”

Ifs Should Jobs Amount Photography Photographer Photograph Finished Visible Manipulation Print Transparent Printmaking

Author:John Sexton

“Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.”

Bigs Photograph Hats Mexico Astonishing Sombreros

Author:Bruce Beresford

“Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.”

Ideas Photograph Triggers

Book:Francis Bacon

Source: Francis Bacon

“I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.”

Kind Home Would Be Wanted Faces My Own Rooms Wall Photograph Drawing Obsessed Couches

Author:Michelle Williams

“I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.”

Two Media Photography Unique Photographer Photograph Surface Relative

Author:John Sexton

“I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.”

Feels Stills I Can Use My Own Views Study Painting Moved Photograph Mediums

Author:John Dyer

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.”

Knows Taken Photography Models Photograph Portraits

Author:Francis Bacon

“The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.”

Looks May Eye Faces Photograph Patterns Vivid Analogies Amplify

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.”

Believe Values Wall Don't Believe Photograph Single Picture

Author:Ernst Haas

“We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.”

Ifs Persons Ends Seems Realizing Walks Beauty Share Photograph Patterns Blow Ugly Strikes Cracks Sidewalk Geometric

Author:Matthew Fox

“When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut - sometimes when you look at a photograph, you just know it's the shot. Sometimes it's about the connection, or about the simplicity of the composition.”

Knows Looks Sometimes Shots Tough Connections Photograph Simplicity Guts Composition Editing

Author:Russell James

“I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.”

People Way I Can Character Hands Guy Photograph Belts Buckles

Author:Richard Gere

“Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.”

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Author:William Eggleston

“I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Said Stills Able Speak Seeing One Thing Function Blind Photograph One Time

Author:William Eggleston

“I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.”

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Author:Marina Abramovic

“I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.”

Stills Hands Photograph Boxes

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.”

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Author:David McCullough

“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.”

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Author:David McCullough

“I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.”

Writing Kindness Happened Curiosity Library Photograph Congress Consideration Librarian Public Library Resourcefulness Writing History

Author:David McCullough

“You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.”

Memories Forever Sweet Photograph Warm Guarantees Sweet Memories

Author:Emily Yoffe

“Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.”

Feels Photograph

Author:Ansel Adams

“Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does.”

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Author:Jamie Glazov

“I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.”

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Author:Scott Sanders

“So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.”

Accounts Photograph Fractions Scrutiny Shutters

Author:David Hockney

“The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.”

Real Enough Photograph Good Enough

Author:David Hockney

“In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.”

“I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.”

I Can Done Missing Weight Cameras Photograph Drawing Volume Flatness

Author:David Hockney

“I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.”

Wells Made Shows Taken Degrees Garden Photograph Angle Ninety Kyoto Rectangles

Author:David Hockney

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