Dewdrops Photography Quotes

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography. ~ Graeme Le Saux

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. ~ Galen Rowell

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history. ~ Peter Schjeldahl

No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does. ~ Bill Henson

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera? ~ Pablo Picasso

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share. ~ Rashid Johnson

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. ~ James Nachtwey

You don't study photography, you just do it. ~ Elliott Erwitt

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph. ~ Bill Jay

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture. ~ Andreas Feininger

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected. ~ Ralph Gibson

Embracing the Light
Collected bits of truth
Shimmering sparks
Shards of light
Merge
Healing
Restoring
Bursting Bright
Rising
in divine ecstatic flame. ~ Leonard Nimoy

He carried a pencil that put a camera to shame. ~ E.B. White

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history. ~ Gilles Peress

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching. ~ Sontag, Susan

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste ~ Helmut Newton

Art and accident are one. ~ Frederick Sommer

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. ~ Robert Adams

The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns. ~ Peter Wollen

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think. ~ Massimo Vitali

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty. ~ Daido Moriyama

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. ~ Charlie Waite

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life. ~ Alec Soth

A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up. ~ John Sexton

I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious. ~ Michael Light

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ~ Arnold Newman

Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole ... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous. ~ John Heartfield

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. ~ Garry Winogrand

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. ~ Josef Sudek

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them. ~ Nuno Roque

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom? ~ Jean-Luc Godard

If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film. ~ Rick Heinrichs

We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor. ~ Alexander Rodchenko

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic. ~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut. ~ Paul Kane

I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside. ~ Rainn Wilson

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. ~ Ansel Adams