“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.” ArtNationsBornActingCreativeFashionGrewSkillsPhotographyGrew UpCookingBritishDecadesBritish HistoryArt And Music Author:Heston Blumenthal
“I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.” WorldChildrenWarBornLonelinessPhotographyOvercomingTinyWar Of The WorldsIsolationWorld War IiWorld War IMassachusetts Book:William Wegman: Funney/strange Source: William Wegman: Funney/strange
“Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.” YearsArtAgeBornPhotographyPhotographerMediumsQualifiedOffspringArt And Science Author:Berenice Abbott
“I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.” WorldHeartStatesSpiritBornSpaceVisionPhotographySubstanceGentleOffering Author:Paul Caponigro
“The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.” WorldDifferentBornFantasyPiecesPossibilityBuildingPaintingPerspectivePhotographyInfiniteScreensCinemaSugarUnlimited Author:Salvador Dali
“If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.” IfsWayYearsHas BeensTwoMightBornPhotographyHundredYears AgoSculptureMight Have BeenSculptors Book:Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment Source: Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment
“In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.” WorldYearsWellsHeartStatesFilmSpiritBornSpaceVisionQuietPaperPhotographySolutionsSubstanceGentleRealmsChemicalsOfferingI Have LearnedPapersShutters Author:Paul Caponigro
“You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.” ArtBornPhotographyPhotographerClassroom Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.” WorldYearsFeelingsSeemsRunningSpiritFightingPassionNamesBornStruggleGreaterPhotographyMadThese DaysFortyMaterialismMy PassionRiot Author:Alfred Stieglitz
“Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.” Has BeensArtDifferentKidsPassionFoundBornMinesPhotographyEndeavourBright LightsIncorporating Author:Angela Cartwright
“After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavours and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.” ArtDifferentShowsLightKidsFoundBornCreativityPhotographyMy FamilyExploringShow BusinessOutletsEndeavourBright LightsIncorporating Author:Angela Cartwright
“I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.” LooksSelfReasonInterestBornPhotographyPhotographMotiveSuspectsSurroundingsSelf InterestStreet PhotographyMirror Mirror On The Wall Book:Self Portrait Source: Self Portrait