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“I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.”

Thinking Knows Humans Stills Important Hard Moments Moving Term Brain Our Lives Happened Photography Direct Series Photograph Contact All Time Suspicion Important Moments Moments In Our Lives

Author:Jon Snow

“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.”

People Thinking Wells Water Failing Painting Photography Draws Cameras Folly

Author:Edward Weston

“Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.”

Thinking Photography Subversive Pensive

Author:Roland Barthes

“We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.”

Thinking Knows Photography Landscape Rely Landscape Photography

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This not only includes equipment and hardware but also software or apps like Sun Seeker and social media outlets like Instagram and Twitter to build community.”

Thinking Way Social Community Sun Media Photography Advantage Tools Social Media Software Equipment Outlets Seekers Instagram Apps Hardware

Author:Vincent Laforet

“A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.”

Thinking Feels Painting Photography Paint Photographer Photograph Symbols Sculpture

Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.”

Thinking Knows Important Photography Tests Photographer

Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.”

Thinking Way Should Stills Mankind Disease Photography Sticks Photographer Quarters Cages Hostile Poke Giggle

Author:Sean Penn

“The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the type of pictures he takes best. What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.”

“When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.”

Thinking Mean Quality Photography Surprise Appeals Loud Shock Vulgar Intrigue

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.”

Thinking Values Individual Force Subjects Particular Expression Photography Photographer Viewers Intrigue Individual Expression

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.”

Thinking Wells Looks Littles Made Reason Beautiful Interest Strange Photography Being True Copies Incomplete Vases

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.”

Thinking Love Persons Facts Lying Artist Forever Involved Photography Shadow Fixed Association Portraits Memorial Monstrous Sanctification

Book:Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford

Source: Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford

“I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.”

Thinking Past Memories Childhood Photography Associates

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Art Hard Steps Perception Photography Art Is Photographer Painter First Steps Execution

Author:Jay Maisel

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