A. D. Coleman Quotes, Photography Quotes, Art 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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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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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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Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.

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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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An image is better than one thousand words

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

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Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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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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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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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

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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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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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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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