Sandeen Photography Quotes

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ~ Susan Sontag

When I am doing photography that I feel free. I just like tell you a story every took to you. ~ Denny Wiranda

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. ~ Ansel Adams

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me. ~ Gerardo Suter

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ~ Ansel Adams

Photography is the story I fail to put into words. ~ Destin Sparks

Photography is what emotions look like. ~ Jon Luvelli

The important thing is not the camera but the eye. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography. ~ David Hockney

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~ John Steinbeck

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

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. ~ Robert Frank

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. ~ Linda McCartney

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. ~ Allan Sekula

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh ~ Bill Collins

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

For me, Every day is Photography Day ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is the art of making memories tangible. ~ Destin Sparks

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography. ~ Alexander Rodchenko

A photograph is an opportunity to keep a moment forever. ~ Destin Sparks

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. ~ Helen Levitt

There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever. ~ Abelardo Morell

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. ~ Jillian Barberie

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. ~ Marius Vieth

Photography is a language more universal than words. ~ Minor White

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.) ~ Wilhelm Rontgen

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical. ~ Annie Leibovitz

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography. ~ Ralph Gibson

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism. ~ Rosalind E. Krauss

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it. ~ Claude Levi-Strauss

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed. ~ Deeksha Mittal

A picture is a picture, it doesn't matter what camera you use! ~ Chris Geiger

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. ~ Don McCullin

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. ~ Edward Weston

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony. ~ Frank Horvat

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space. ~ Gilles Deleuze

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. ~ Ken Rockwell

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. ~ Annie Leibovitz

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain. ~ Brassai

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode. ~ Abigail Solomon-Godeau

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography - that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms. ~ Joel Meyerowitz

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz) ~ Marcel Duchamp

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

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 of commercial photography and snapshot photography. ~ Martin Parr

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. ~ Robert Adams

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared. ~ Keith Carter

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ~ Edward Steichen

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. ~ Philip Jones Griffiths

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world. ~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale. ~ Ralph Gibson

Bad weather makes for good photography. ~ Ansel Adams

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. ~ Mike MacDonald

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war. ~ James Nachtwey

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. ~ Winona Ryder

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better. ~ Nan Goldin

Good photography is unpretentious. ~ Walker Evans

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical ... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone. ~ Peter Beard

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to. ~ Matthew Modine

A camera is just a medium to capture what you have in your vision, and vision is something that cannot be bought. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

Photography is where the past meets the present. ~ Destin Sparks

Photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it. ~ Ezra Stoller

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images. ~ Italo Calvino

Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography. ~ Nobuyoshi Araki

It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. ~ Kiera Cass

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything. ~ Anton Corbijn

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

When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer. ~ Mark Denman

When you take the picture of the people, you take the picture of the whole stories of their past because every person is nothing but a combination of their entire past stories! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams. ~ Tim Walker

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God. ~ Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! ~ Bill Brandt

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it. ~ Dara McGrath

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing. ~ Charles Baudelaire

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work. ~ Ralph Gibson

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art. ~ Berenice Abbott

Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar. ~ Walker Evans

Photography Works with a Creative mind. ~ Ackeem Thomas

The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias. ~ Susan Sontag

I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too. ~ Stephen Shore

In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth. ~ Vilmos Zsigmond

Photography is about being exquisitely present. ~ Joel Meyerowitz

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors. ~ Bruce Campbell

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

I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway. ~ David Hockney

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. ~ Jean-Francois Chevrier

She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them. ~ Tommy Wallach

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. ~ Sam Abell

Photography is the truth if it's being handled by a truthful person. ~ Don McCullin

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. ~ Lewis Carroll

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures. ~ Alex Majoli

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. ~ Scoot McNairy

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. ~ Harold Eugene Edgerton

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things. ~ Alec Soth