Photography Quotes — Page 28

Wallace Stevens

Poet

“Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.”

Evil Photography Cameras

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Walker Evans

Photographer

“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.”

Government Fall Photography

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Ryan Lewis

Music Producer, Rapper

“I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.”

Religious Philosophy

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Isabel Allende

Novelist

“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.”

Soul Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.”

Way Firsts Photography

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Walker Evans

Photographer

“I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.”

Trying Needs Photography

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Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur

“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”

Art Wall Photography

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Robert Adams

Photographer

“The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.”

Rocks Photography Commitment

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Russell James

Photographer

“I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.”

Passion Crazy Photography

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Lawrence Schiller

Photographer, Filmmaker

“I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.”

Hard Work Photography Athlete

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Lee Friedlander

Photographer

“With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.”

Believe Photography Cameras

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Henry Holmes Smith

Photographer

“Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, nothing about having important feelings or concepts of humanity. That's the sort of thing that is bad education. I'd say be a human being first and if you happen to wind up using photography, that's good for photography.”

Book Photography Wind

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