Best Photography Wisdom
1737 Photography quotes by 530 unique authors
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At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt…
— Wynn Bullock
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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
— W. Eugene Smith
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
— Berenice Abbott
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live…
— Ken Burns
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
— Galen Rowell
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They…
— Imogen Cunningham
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
— Edvard Munch
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
— Antonia Fraser
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
— Galen Rowell
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
— Galen Rowell
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Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for…
— Ben Shahn
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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…
— Ben Shahn
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Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
— Ben Shahn
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I…
— George Lucas
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
— Edward Steichen
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Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
— Herb Ritts
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Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the…
— Julian Schnabel
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth…
— Douglass North
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Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
— Nigel Dennis
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Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
— Nigel Dennis
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When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
— Graeme Le Saux
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