Photography Quotes — Page 36

Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

“If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.”

Photography Perception Natural

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Rainn Wilson

Actor

“I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.”

Writing Photography Block

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.”

Thinking Photography Photographer

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.”

May Photography Average

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."”

Artist Brother Photography

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."”

Thinking Writing Photography

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Teju Cole

Author, Photographer

“I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.”

Literature Photography Hours

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Teju Cole

Author, Photographer

“One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.”

Photography Difficulty Explicit

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Teresa Palmer

Actress

“As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that.”

Photography Architecture Paint

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.”

Powerful Photography Cameras

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Tim Walker

Photographer

“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.”

Dream Fashion Photography

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Todd Walker

Baseball Player

“Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.”

Photography Cameras Forgiving

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