Mark Twain Quotes, Photography Quotes, Silly Quotes

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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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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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Photography Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Photography Quotes , Thinking Quotes

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Photography Quotes , Memories Quotes

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Photography Quotes , Art Quotes

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

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Tags : Abigail Solomon-Godeau Quotes , Photography Quotes , Gun Quotes

There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

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Tags : Abelardo Morell Quotes , Photography Quotes , Forever Quotes

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 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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Tags : Abelardo Morell Quotes , Photography Quotes , Why Not 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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Tags : Aaron Scharf Quotes , Photography Quotes , Art Quotes

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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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Photography Quotes , Taken 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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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Photography Quotes , Attention 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