“I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.” ArtNationsBornActingCreativeFashionGrewSkillsPhotographyGrew UpCookingBritishDecadesBritish HistoryArt And Music Author:Heston Blumenthal
“Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.” PeoplePaintingSkillsPhotographyCamerasPhotographDiscarded Author:Igor Babailov
“I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story “greater than the sum of its parts.”” WayWritingStoriesGreaterSkillsPhotographyVideoFilmmakingCompilation Author:Brendan Fletcher
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.” PersonsArtChoicesQualityWeekSubjectsDependsSkillsPhotographyOrdinaryCamerasDemocraticTechniquePityArtisticExposureImpatientCarelessGadgetsOrdinary PersonTechnical SkillsFoolproof Author:W. H. Auden
“Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.” IfsDoneWholeFormProcessPiecesEffectsProductsSkillsPhotographyMassEnormousPropagandaDevicesDocumentsWork DoneAgitation Author:John Heartfield
“What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.” PeopleWellsMadeStillsAgeCertainLevelsHappenedSkillsPhotographyPhotographerGood TimesDigitalDigital Age Author:Bryan Adams