“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.” IfsShowsArtistWishPerfectSubjectsPhotographyAbsolutesPaintPhotographerPainterPortraitsFidelityOld Days Author:Aubrey Beardsley
“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.” FirstsLooksLongHas BeensRealityPastSpeakLanguageWishPhotographyFirst TimeImpressionPast Experiences Author:Ernst Haas
“Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.” WishTeachPhotographyPhotographMake A Wish Author:George A Tice
“So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.” WorldWayHumansLongDoeLastsWishThis WorldPaintingPhotographyDefeatSatisfiedPainterAgentsIsolationManifestMetaphysicalConfinedFidelityReformationReproductionSubjectivity Author:Stanley Cavell
“I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.” WishCommonPhotographyAgreeCommon SenseReplacedOverratedIntellectualism Author:Bill Jay
“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” InspirationalEnergyWishEmotionLandPhotographyPhotographerMagnificenceInspirational Photography Author:Annie Leibovitz
“Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.” IfsJobsWishPhotographyArtisticDepartment Author:Ben Shahn