Thing Quotes

36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person. — Helmut Newton
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that… — Edward Weston
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan… — Wynn Bullock
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. — Diane Arbus
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there… — Joel Meyerowitz
One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be… — Cornell Capa
Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you… — Mike Tyson
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless.… — John Szarkowski
If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to… — Bill Brandt
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished… — Edward Weston
The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the… — Johnny Giles
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to… — John Szarkowski
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. — Imogen Cunningham
...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it.… — Imogen Cunningham
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture. — Ruth Bernhard
The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image. — Anne Geddes
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. — Garry Winogrand
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like… — Susan Sontag

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