“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.” WayCitiesNovelStreetsStrangePhotographyDrawsAncientArchitectureGatesIntensitySquaresIllustrationPristineObviousness Author:Louis Aragon
“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.” WayPersonsStillsDifferentRealMomentsSocialMemoriesPracticeForeverAlivePhotographyDrawsPhotographDifferent WaysEach DayThat MomentLinkedExplicit Author:Christian Metz
“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtCoursesCareersTeachCollegePhotographyDrawsAbsolutesNonsenseRoyal Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.” IfsFirstsWellsPaintingPhotographyDrawsPaintPhotographDrawingPrint Author:Bill Jay
“I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.” WellsFilmMaterialsPhotographyDrawsPaintPresentingGeneral Public Author:Paul Kane
“I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.” ThinkingHeartImportantEmotionalElementsPhotographyDrawsImpactTechniqueReactionsThese DaysViewers Author:Anne Geddes
“People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.” PeopleThinkingWellsWaterFailingPaintingPhotographyDrawsCamerasFolly Author:Edward Weston