"Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to……" — Stephen Shore
"Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable."
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15 Quotes by Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore has 15 quotes on this site.
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If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
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The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
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A photograph has edges the world does not.
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Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s…
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To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to…
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A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses…
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I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.
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I have to be reminded, “’It’s your son’s birthday party. Bring a camera.’ And then, when I’m there, ‘Take a…
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I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the…
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This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In…
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There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one…
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer…
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More Bring Quotes
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
— Aristophanes
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
— Richard Bach
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Jane Austen
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
— Bill Ayers
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's…
— Alec Baldwin
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People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.
— Stephen Baldwin
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