Photography Quotes — Page 27

EP

Photographer

“I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it's disturbing. I think they're fooling themselves very often. They're just talking, they're not saying anything.”

Thinking Talking Photography

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Eliot Porter

Photographer

“But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.”

Art Love Is Photography

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Conrad Hall

Cinematographer

“Photography is a very important part of my life.”

Important Photography

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Bill Jay

Photographer

“Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.”

Photography Photographer

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Eliot Porter

Photographer

“My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.”

Photography Emotion Photographer

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Eliot Porter

Photographer

“Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that happens has equal significance. Nothing can be dispensed with. This is a common mistake that many people make: They think that half of nature can be destroyed - the uncomfortable half - while still retaining the acceptable and the pleasing side.”

Eye Mistake Photography

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

“Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.”

Jobs Light Photography

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Bill Jay

Photographer

“...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.”

Views Feet Photography

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Bill Jay

Photographer

“Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.”

Two Choices Photography

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Andy Warhol

Artist, Filmmaker

“All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.”

Crazy Photography Buttons

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.”

Spiritual Photography Reflection

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Andy Warhol

Artist, Filmmaker

“Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.”

Photography Photographer Buttons

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