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“Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.”

Art Actors Process Strange Painting Photography Connected Architecture Painter Filmmaking

Author:Wim Wenders

“Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.”

Way Cities Novel Streets Strange Photography Draws Ancient Architecture Gates Intensity Squares Illustration Pristine Obviousness

Author:Louis Aragon

“I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.”

Knows Mind I Can Facts Together Design Students Photography Photograph Architecture Significance Modest

Author:Julius Shulman

“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.”

Trying Wells Use Film Class Teach Novel Students Source Photography Notion Architecture Graduates Topics Graphic Graphic Novels Terminology Seminars

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.”

People Art Different Together Design Photography Architecture Different Things Working Together Publishing Installation

Author:Ai Weiwei

“As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that.”

Photography Paint Architecture Make Sense

Author:Teresa Palmer

“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”

Art Hands Spirit Creative Photography Architecture Holding Hands

Book:Altars

Source: Altars

“The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.”

People Belief Photography Fundamentals Photograph Architecture Authenticity Melancholy

Book:The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

Source: The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

“Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.”

Firsts Seems Photography Understood Photographer Architecture

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews