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“Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.”

Trying Two Photography Doctors Photographer Profession Satisfied Painter Dentist

Author:Pablo Picasso

“When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?”

Should Artist Realizing Subjects Painting Photography Cameras Objectives Persist Lenses

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.”

Way Reality Age Form Found Photography Surprise Disappear Mediums Technological Disappearance

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.”

Should Doe Reality Suffering Example Photography Capture Realism Realist

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!”

Knows Men Want Giving Wells Littles Long Can Do Color Months Photography Illusion Machines Ultimate Intelligent Do You Know Sweat Ingenious Can Do Something Intelligent Man

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.”

Photography Cameras Abstract Incapable Strict Integration Synthetic

Author:Ansel Adams

“I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.”

Writing Photography Spectators

Author:Ansel Adams

“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!”

Two War Together Film Bits Painting Photography Shots Photographer Photograph Iraq Newspapers Experts Chemicals Editing Iraq War Crumbling

Author:David Hockney

“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.”

Ifs Looks Art Hands Bits Paper Photography Cameras Video Bores Pencils Video Cameras

Author:David Hockney

“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.”

Objects Photography Consequence Photograph

Author:Dorothea Lange

“The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.”

Facts Use Difficult Color Photography Empty Difficulty Photographer Caught Statements Visuals Caught Up Colorful Combining

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.”

Facts Light Term Quality Taken Photography Photographer Photograph Expensive Contradiction Imagery

Author:Damien Hirst

“Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.”

Scene Anxiety Photography Losing Photograph Possession Decline Clicks Shutters

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.”

World Done Used Attention Seeing Photography Conscious Possession Active Mediums Substitutes Assured Supplements Employing

Author:Alain de Botton

“Virtue is not photogenic.”

Virtue Photography Photogenic

Book:Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning

Source: Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning

“Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.”

Painting Photography Starting Portraits Chores Tiresome

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.”

Source: Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters

“Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.”

Today Spirit Painting Photography Bores

Author:Edward Weston

“Light makes photography. Embrace light.”

Light Photography Embrace Photographer Photograph Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Inspiring Photography Kodak Photography And Light Admire And Love

Author:George Eastman

“Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.”

Ideas Term Poor Attention Mistake Photography Let Me Photograph Productions Excuse Excellent Immature Excellent Work

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Choice and chance structure art and nature.”

Art Choices Chance Photography Structure Photographer Construction

Book:Sommer: . Images

Source: Sommer: . Images

“Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.”

Ideas Photography Photographer Collision Collide

Book:Sommer: Words

Source: Sommer: Words

“Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.”

Art Ideas Answers Possibility Tomorrow Photography Photographer

Author:Frederick Sommer

“We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.”

Vision Photography Photographer

Author:Frederick Sommer

“I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.”

Interesting Photography Hobbies Very Interesting Archeology

Author:Bill Wyman

“Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.”

Ideas Lying Accepting Photography Photograph Paradox Liars Cherish

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.”

Whole Photography Instruments Lenses Exaggeration Whole Truth

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!”

Doe Form Black White Sky Photography Ordinary Relation Blue Mess Tone Colour Yellow Plates Lenses Sunflower Travesty

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.”

Process Creative Photography Photographer Celebration Creative Process

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.”

Art Stills School Film Courses Photography High School Editing Usc Art Direction

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.”

Artist Process Challenges Half Creative Photography Mediums Print Creative Process Subjective Practise Methodology Pallets

Author:David Travis

“Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.”

People Firsts Art Photography Unique First Time Print

Author:David Travis

“If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.”

Ifs Years Ten Photography Paint

Author:John F. Carlson

“My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.”

Way Use Photography Traditional Mediums

Author:Andres Serrano

“By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.”

Turns Teaching Dangerous Danger Photography Dependence

Author:Robert Genn

“As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.”

Knows Used Artist Masters Photography Method Slave Loyal

Author:Robert Genn

“If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.”

Ifs Giving Serious Photography Conviction Painter Abstract Colour

Author:E. J. Hughes

“I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.”

Photography Critics Illustration

Author:E. J. Hughes

“It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.”

Quality Design Painting Photography Cameras Paint Dues Invention

Author:E. J. Hughes

“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.”

World Photography Messages Cameras Mediums Another World Camera And Photography

Author:Orson Welles

“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.”

Ifs Mean Art Perfect Powerful Identity Photography Ordinary Aspect Absolutes Disappear Drawing Closest Scrutiny Resemblance Absolute Truth Microscopes Photogenic

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

Believe Political Belief I Believe Interesting Equal Photography Photographer Human Rights Feminist Equality I Believe In Journalism Reporters Paparazzi Equality Of People Newspapers Journalism Newspaper Reporters

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.”

Art Nations Born Acting Creative Fashion Grew Skills Photography Grew Up Cooking British Decades British History Art And Music

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.”

People Way Trying Ideas Together Film Form Stuff Photography Performances Determined Surface Retrospect Pictures And Words

Author:David Salle

“If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.”

Ifs Photography Clicks Shutters

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“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?”

Kind Two Moments Three Views Cases Fields Color Photography Percent Dimensions Inclusion Lenses Ninety Elimination Eliminating Artifacts Shutters Before And After Three Dimensions

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.”

World This World Expression Photography

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.”

“Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.”

Knows Way Art Film Acting College Involved Photography Economics Studios Short Films

Author:Brit Marling

“But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards”

Art Lines Photography Art Is Faithful Boards Dull Halls Fraud Washing Disappointing

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

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