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Photography Quotes by Duane Michals
- Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
- If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into…
- I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand…
- Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
- I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
- Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of…
- I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face…
- A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is…
- Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an…
- Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go…
- People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe…
More Photography Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams