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... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Photography Quotes , Art Quotes

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Photography Quotes , Eye Quotes

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Photography Quotes , Character Quotes

"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."

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I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

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...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Photography Quotes , Wine Quotes

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Photography Quotes , Mean Quotes

Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Photography Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Photography Quotes , Maturity Quotes

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

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