Photography Quotes

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.
David Lynch

Nothing, Together, Afraid

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott

Past, Once, Present

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
George Lucas

Business, Crazy, Mean

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney

History, Picture, Meaning

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
David Hockney

Art, Said, Criticized

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
David Hockney

Interested, Painters, Extent

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
Camille Paglia

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
Annie Lennox

Art, Fine, Phone

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Robert Frank

Hope, Black, Despair

Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Ernst Haas

Time, Past, Long

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Robert Frank

Good, Humanity, Together

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell

Alone, Moment, Desire

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

After, Once, Picture

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Time, Money, Wait

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance, Looks, Liked

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Art, Interested, Forms

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott

Life, Positive, Death

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
David Bailey

Keep, Tried, Fingers

I did painting before I did photography.
David Bailey

Before, Painting

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
David Bailey

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
Jessica Lange

Time, Blessing, Filled

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
Jessica Lange

Acting, Start, Pursue

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

Great, Human, Become

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Short, Put, Energy

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Today, Perfect, Madness

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Spike Lee

Time, Talk, Film

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

Reality, Real, Create

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
Conrad Hall

Makes, Contrast

Photography is a very important part of my life.
Conrad Hall

Life, Important

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