Photography Quote by Bill Jay Download Open image “I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .” — Bill Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photography Projects Seems
I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of… — Nicholas Nixon Copy Share Image
I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself. — C. J. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director.… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I don't like photo shoots where I have to look a certain type of way and I can't pick what I want to do. — GloRilla Copy Share Image
The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old way, the… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months. — Fatima Sana Shaikh Copy Share Image
I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do. — Steve Grand Copy Share
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new… — Bill Jay Copy Share
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view… — Bill Jay Copy Share
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a… — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's one of death. You invite a profound theme into your work when you choose cut flowers. You are talking about mortality and time moving forward. You are saying that everything, everything we see and experience and… — Whitney Otto Copy Share
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
![“[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.” quote by Garry Winogrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2eb/garry-winogrand-2342_cost_photography-is-likewise-even-french-impr_2802.jpg)
