Quotes About Photography

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

I am an avid lover of taking photographs of the night sky. Whenever I can, I get myself off to Canada or to Scotland and set up around the lake and spend a few hours in the middle of the night with a flask of coffee, a little glass of whiskey and some snacks.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.

When you walk in the front of the White House, the pictures on the walls, they change out pretty frequently. They're all very cool and historical, with pictures from the current term and past terms.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

'Power' usually starts principal photography around mid September, and the first table read is always like one big family reunion. The most common comment we hear is how 'well rested' everyone looks... something that can't be said by the end of the season.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.