Best photography & possibility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.”

Art Ideas Answers Possibility Tomorrow Photography Photographer

“The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph.”

Certain Process Space Magic Possibility Elements Photography Flow Photograph Dimensions Time And Space Fixing Framing

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?”

Knows Stills I Can Two Together Games Interesting Five Havens Possibility Photography Concepts Balls Clue

Author:Lee Friedlander

“There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.”

Easy Difficult Possibility Photography Direct Photographer Faster Instant Our Time Proportion Multiple

Author:Ernst Haas

“I think that digital is offering many great possibilities for cinematographers. Particularly in urban cityscapes and low light photography its allowing us to render what we actually see with our eyes; which is interesting.”

Thinking Light Eye Interesting Possibility Photography Lows Digital Allowing Offering Urban Cinematographers Cityscapes

Author:Seamus McGarvey

“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.”

World Different Born Fantasy Pieces Possibility Building Painting Perspective Photography Infinite Screens Cinema Sugar Unlimited

Author:Salvador Dali

“The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.”

Different Interest Media Possibility Photography Mediums Masterpiece

Author:Chuck Close

“It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Use Moving Left Interesting Possibility Photography Profound Mediums Exhausted

Author:Chuck Close

“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.”

Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti

“We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.”

Mean Eye Used Found Vision Possibility Expression Offers Photography Cameras Technique Mediums Artistic Characteristics Visuals Totality

Author:Piet Zwart

“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”

World Way Giving Humans Philosophy Faces Form Left Chance Human Beings Possibility Revolution Photography Tasks Despite Significance

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.”

Knows Has Beens Art Important Seems Possibility Photography Photographer Exhausted Straightforward History Of Photography

Author:Van Deren Coke

“The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.”

World Firsts Kind Mean Faces Black White Possibility Elements Photography Photographer Indian Latin Our World Defining Latin America Demographics Demonstrating Latin American

Author:Edmundo Desnoes

“There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.”

Ifs World Facts Reality Courses Possibility Bears Photography Manage Exclusion Chunks Uncontrollable Framing

Author:Philip-Lorca diCorcia

“Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.”

Done Seems Easy Forget Subjects Creation Possibility Personality Photography Aspect Infinite Photograph Marvelous Affirmation

Author:Gisele Freund

“[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.”

Simple Existence Possibility Perception Photography Method Investing Expanding

Author:Thomas Struth

“... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.”

Lying Possibility Particular Photography Photographer Corners Around The Corner Enigma

Author:Alex Webb

“I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.”

Thinking Journey Possibility Return Photography Infinite Photograph Endless Never Ending Infinite Possibilities

Author:Michael Kenna

“Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photography can do well, or it is something I can do well in analog photography. It can be hard to know what or who is in control.”

Possibility Photography Embrace Rejected

Author:Torbjørn Rødland

“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.”

Remember Possibility Photography Photographer Photograph Mediums Landscape Photography

Author:Ansel Adams

“The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.”

Art Process Possibility Expression Photography Department

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.”

Firsts Given Taken Possibility Expression Photography Discovery Cameras Photographer Dear Familiar Intrigued Dear Friend Honeymoon

Author:Aaron Siskind

“Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.”

Writing Matter Given Numbers Vision Cases Possibility Photography Standing Infinite Bottom Chess Visuals Portions Editing Right Time Finite Right Place Cones

Book:William Eggleston's Guide

Source: William Eggleston's Guide

“The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.”

Real Country Might Mother Values Father Boys Failing Possibility Taught Return Photography Photograph Uniforms Consolation Departure Real Value

Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

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