Photography Quote by Chuck Close Download Open image “From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.” — Chuck Close ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photography Point of view Views
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history. — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If you want to edit your photos and make yourself look different, go for it. That is up to you, but in my opinion,… — Peyton List 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
As far as Vern and I go, we have had situations where people have tried to take photographs of me and cut Vernon out… — Tess Daly 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
One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them. — Jennifer Jason Leigh 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
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
“Now there was photographic evidence of me with a girl. Lindsey pack the camera in her duffel while I contemplated the film inside it,… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook 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… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
