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I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)Collection: Photography
The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.Collection: Photography
Light is one of the most important factors in photography.Collection: Photography
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.Collection: Photography
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.Collection: Photography
There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.Collection: Photography
I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally and we have to know about each other. Photography gives us that opportunity.Collection: Photography
Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.Collection: Photography
To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.Collection: Photography
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.Collection: Photography
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.Collection: Photography
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.Collection: Photography
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!Collection: Photography
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.Collection: Photography
A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings...it's really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. It's about emotional obsession and empathy.Collection: Photography
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.Collection: Photography
The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?Collection: Photography
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.Collection: Photography
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.Collection: Photography
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 a photographer of peace.Collection: Photography
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference.Collection: Photography
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.Collection: Photography
When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.Collection: Photography
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.Collection: Photography
I get so confused about life photography art.Collection: Photography
Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.Collection: Photography
Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.Collection: Photography
No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.Collection: Photography
Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our ageCollection: Photography
Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.Collection: Photography
Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.Collection: Photography
Photography has no dark sides!Collection: Photography
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.Collection: Photography
If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?Collection: Photography
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.Collection: Photography
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.Collection: Photography
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.Collection: Photography
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.Collection: Photography
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.Collection: Photography
In black and white you suggest, in color you state.Collection: Photography
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.Collection: Photography
While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.Collection: Photography
Working on photography is working on oneself.Collection: Photography
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.Collection: Photography
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.Collection: Photography
Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise to the observation that the long-range weather forecast was wrong most of the time. In turn, this gave rise to the dropping of the long-range weather forecast and to the admission that really accurate forecasting could only cover the next day or two, and not always then.Collection: Photography
Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.Collection: Photography
My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.Collection: Photography
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer.Collection: Photography