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“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.”

Firsts Looks Long Has Beens Reality Past Speak Language Wish Photography First Time Impression Past Experiences

Author:Ernst Haas

“I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.”

People Speak Photography Photograph

Author:George A Tice

“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Art I Can Light Speak Space Pieces Photography Photograph Capture Squares Art Of Writing Rectangles

Author:Gerardo Suter

“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Art I Can Light Speak Photography Art Of Writing

Author:Gerardo Suter

“By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.”

Men Doe Speak Deals Tree Photography Abstract Internals Unseen

Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.”

Earth Speak Language Path Photography Chemicals Providing Physiognomy

Author:August Sander

“Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.”

Thinking Speak Language Photography Foreign Language

Author:Philip-Lorca diCorcia

“Scientists are usually nice, organized, logical people who are very cooperative. I always learn a lot of science while shooting science stories and it helps to be able to speak intelligently to a subject about his or her field of work, i.e., do your homework before the photography.”

People Helping Stories Able Speak Nice Subjects Fields Photography Scientist Shooting Organized Logical Homework Cooperatives

Author:Peter Menzel

“It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.”

Men Years Mind Persons Made Ideas Different Seems Science Speak Cases Planets Late Photography Discovery Flow Electric Rivals Theoretical Calculations Ripe Notorious Neptune

Author:Francis Galton

“It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback.”

Speak Stuff Failing Willing Photography Okay Blow Assets Feedback

Author:Chase Jarvis

“I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.”

Thinking Heart Littles Shows Speak Language Simple Baby Photography Universal Photographer Photograph Adore Very Positive Universal Language

Author:Anne Geddes

“If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.”

Ifs Writing Speak Answers Photography Photographer

Author:Robert Doisneau

“Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?”

Has Beens Speak Wonder Return Photography Photographer Could Have Been

Book:Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980

Source: Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980