Photography Quotes — Page 25

RA

Photographer

“If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.”

Quality Photography Alive

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”

Beautiful Successful Photography

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Marcel Proust

Novelist

“Photography is the product of complete alienation.”

Photography Products

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.”

Photography Painting

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.”

Photography Photograph

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LR

L. Ron Hubbard

Author

“Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.”

Writing Mean Photography

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H. G. Wells

Writer

“I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.”

Thinking Photography Woe

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LF

Lee Friedlander

Photographer

“I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.”

Self Looks Photography

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.”

Photography Clothes Cameras

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Poet

“Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.”

Photography Clothes Benefits

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

“DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)”

Ideas Photography Daguerreotypes

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LB

Lewis Baltz

Photographer

“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done in the medium of photography. It may be debatable to this day whether I ever succeeded in achieving that ambition, but the point is, I never had any uncertainty about that.”

Artist Photography Ambition

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