Francis Bacon Quotes, Photography Quotes, Taken 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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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

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

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

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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

... 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

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

I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.

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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Photography Quotes , People Quotes

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Photography Quotes , Men Quotes

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

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

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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Photography Quotes , Art Quotes

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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Tags : Abigail Spencer Quotes , Photography Quotes , Paris Quotes

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

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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

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

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

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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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Photography Quotes , Thinking Quotes