Home / Topics / Photography Quotes

Photography Quotes

Browse 3249 quotes about Photography.

Photography Quotes

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

People Two Different Form Literature Force Hours Pay Attention Comedy Groups Painting Photography Tragedy Pay Attention Screenplays Soundtracks

Author:Paula Patton

“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.”

Should Stories Literature Position Objects Photography

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.”

Literature Term Hours Photography More Time

Author:Teju Cole

“No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.”

Persons Doe Literature Differences Photography Mediums

Author:Bill Henson

“Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.”

Inspirational Art Literature Interest Design Fields Expression Photography Theater Dance Ballet

Author:Lester Beall

“The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.”

Different Literature Perception Photography Deeper Parallels

Author:Ralph Gibson

“Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?”

Use Certain Literature Liberty Cases Subjects Painting Photography Capable Aspect Profit Painter Domain Liberating Anecdotes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.”

Art Literature Memories Photography Critical Visuals Anticipation Imaginative Formation Visual Art Prerogative Handmade

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.”

Lying Literature Painting Photography Angle Selected

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

“Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.”

Literature Stuff Sea Photography Happenings Surface

Author:Max Pam

“Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.”

Thinking Giving Moments Reality Literature Interesting Fiction Photography Wings Following Observation Description That Moment Let It Go Staging

Author:Larry Sultan

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.”

Different Literature Comedy Painting Photography Tragedy

Author:Paula Patton

“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”

Done Literature Disease Photography Representation Pictorial

Book:Complete Works of John Ruskin

Source: Complete Works of John Ruskin

“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”

Hate Literature Photography I Hate Cameras Photograph Camera And Photography Art Photography Capturing A Moment Photography

Book:Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters