Quotes About Photography

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

So I always get in some kind of situation where next thing I know it's four a.m. and I go, uh oh, I have a photo session first thing in the morning!

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.