“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!” TwoWarTogetherFilmBitsPaintingPhotographyShotsPhotographerPhotographIraqNewspapersExpertsChemicalsEditingIraq WarCrumbling 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.” IfsLooksArtHandsBitsPaperPhotographyCamerasVideoBoresPencilsVideo Cameras Author:David Hockney
“Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.” LittlesPainSufferingBitsGoalPhotographyLittle BitWorthyPursueWorthwhile Author:Chris Burkard
“Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.” WayLittlesSometimesBitsFrontsPhotographyLittle BitNewsPagesDryJournalistic Author:Chris Hondros
“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.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfBitsImpossibleFrontsPhotographyHappeningsCamerasPhotographerPhotographHonestlyMade ItPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:John Sexton
“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.” BitsDifferencesRecordsSeeingPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographCamera And PhotographyLeica Author:Ernst Haas
“The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.” ThinkingLittlesArtIdeasDifferentSometimesBitsPeriodsPhotographyLittle BitArt IsAspectVideoInterfereFiniteSculptureExpressive Author:Marco Brambilla
“I really learned a lot from collecting clothes because I got to go back into the history of fashion and fashion photography and jewelry. It changed how I felt about fashion and about what I did forever because I used to look a little bit down on myself for it.” LooksLittlesUsedFeltBitsForeverFashionChangedPhotographyLittle BitClothesCollectingJewelryFashion PhotographyHistory Of Fashion Author:Stephanie Seymour
“Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.” WritingEnoughMightFoundBitsInterestingPaintingPhotographyDistractionMarvelous Author:Jacques-Henri Lartigue
“I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.” RealityOrderBitsPhotographyEmbraceChaosAbstract Author:Ralph Gibson
“Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.” NeedsSelfBitsProcessWalksSpecialPhotographyDiscoveryDrivingDestructiveDigitalNeighborhoodStoppingSelf DestructiveTime Of NeedSpedDigital Photography Author:Mona Kuhn
“For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.” IfsMeanRealityFilmBitsPhotographyPhotographerCapture Author:Garry Winogrand
“Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.” LifeImportantMatterGodRealityBitsSunPiecesElementsPhotographyPhotographerDivinityHomageBits And Pieces Author:Walker Evans