Lindes Photography Quotes

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. ~ Ansel Adams

When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands. ~ Paul Chaplo

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard. ~ Bill Jay

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark. ~ Jessica Lange

The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible. ~ Wynn Bullock

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

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. ~ Edward Weston

I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know. ~ Adam Fuss

Photography is not purely a mechanical process. You need to know how to look, where to point the camera, and when to press the button. These acts depend on the eye, mind, and heart. ~ Andy Karr

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women. ~ Lynsey Addario

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results colors. ~ Jay Maisel

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. ~ Gabriel Lippmann

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera. ~ Alexey Brodovitch

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. ~ William Wegman

The ambition of instantaneous photography ... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on. ~ Rudolf Arnheim

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. ~ Frank Horvat

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. ~ Ken Rockwell

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. ~ Brian May

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window. ~ Alec Soth

Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one. ~ Robert Gillis

What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share it with everyone and share it with future generations. But theirs is also the sense of Secrets of the picture, or the stuff you don't know, or don't see. You don't really know what happened before or after a picture its like time is just frozen in that moment. ~ Jesus Holguin

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want ... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented. ~ Peter Doig

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well. ~ Jerry Saltz

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all. ~ Susan Sontag

I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me. ~ Walker Evans

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there. ~ Anthony Farrimond

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

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. ~ Fay Godwin

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it. ~ Josef Koudelka

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white ... to highlight that contrast. ~ Leonard Nimoy

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

Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it. ~ Lynn Johnston

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves. ~ Gordon Parks

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through. ~ Edward Burtynsky

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt