Collecting Quote by Martin Parr Download Open image “Taking photos is a form of collecting.” — Martin Parr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collecting Form Photography Photos Taking Taking Photos
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc. — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I've been collecting photos for a long time, I mean since I started making money. But what you have had to go through to… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me. — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted,… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
My real first job was delivering newspapers with I was 15. I would ride my bike around and chuck papers at people's houses. The… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed,… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences. — Kesh Copy Share Image
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion,… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
