“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?” ArtCountrySufferingHumanityGivenPleasurePoorActingMoralityPhotographyBlessedDearCastsMy TimeAbsentInventorTolerableDear OnesChloroform Author:Jane Welsh Carlyle
“I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious.” WorldArtPleasureFinePhotographyPhotographSillyFine ArtsPretentiousArchivesArt Photography Author:Michael Light
“If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.” IfsRememberUsedMy OwnPleasureStrugglePhotographyCaughtPretensePremature Author:Jeanloup Sieff
“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.” InspirationalMomentsPleasurePhotographyLifetimePhotographerPhotographThat MomentThings In LifeEmbarrassmentPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyPhoto ShootsCapturing A Moment PhotographyEmbarrassing Moment Author:Tony Benn
“It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.” PleasurePhotographyPhotographer Author:Chuck Close
“Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.” RealityPleasureWonderFrontsPhotographyCamerasSurprisePhotographerComplexityUnnecessary Author:David Hurn
“And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsImportantDoneProblemMightDesireStrongPleasureSeeingExpressionHabitPhotographyEvidencePhotographerPhotographBordersCaptureTaking PicturesStrong Desire Author:Sam Abell
“We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and more important: I remind myself to find the pleasure in this moment, a time in which the red sky passes to black, children create unanticipated rhymes, and the stars fall closer to earth.” KnowsWayFirstsChildrenTwoImportantMomentsEarthFallStarsBlackPleasureTakenSkyPhotographyRedPhotographerPhotographRhymeTwo WaysGambleConsoleBillboards Author:Laura McPhee
“Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.” GivingArtMadeFormLyingLanguagePleasurePhotographyMediumsWorks Of ArtAestheticSubjectivity Book:On photography Source: On photography
“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” MomentsShowsPleasureSpecialProducePhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographSimplicitySomething SpecialCamera And PhotographyCapturing A Moment Photography Author:Sam Abell