Photographic Quotes
94 quotes by 76 authors
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I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.
— Jonathan Winters
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The photographic image... is a message without a code.
— Roland Barthes
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When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used…
— Marie Curie
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With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge…
— Max von Laue
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I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through…
— Anne Geddes
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I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
— Alfred Stieglitz
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I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks…
— Anne Geddes
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The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here…
— Paul Strand
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A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part…
— Richard Avedon
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I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work.…
— Edward Weston
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Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,…
— Aaron Siskind
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More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is…
— Beaumont Newhall
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While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less…
— Susan Sontag
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In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it,…
— Brassai
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The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...
— Ansel Adams
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I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
— John C. McGinley
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The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.
— Lewis Baltz
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Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and…
— Leryn Franco
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For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,…
— Eugene Atget
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I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an…
— Lisette Model
Who Wrote These Photographic Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 94 Photographic Quotes, led by these top contributors: