Quotes by Photography Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun. Alphonse de Lamartine photography sun art Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty. Alvin Langdon Coburn beauty-everywhere photography ordinary My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else. Alvin Langdon Coburn cameras photography matter It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams. Alvin Langdon Coburn photography dream art I knew I liked art. I knew I liked photography. I remember seeing photos of Linda Evangelista in Italian Vogue as a teenager, and at the time I didn't know who she was. There were two photos - one shot by Fabrizio Ferri and another one by Steven Meisel. I didn't know who any of those people were. I think it was the first summer I was modeling, I saw these magazines sitting out and looked at them. I remember thinking, These are the kind of images I want to make. Amber Valletta photography summer art PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne. Ambrose Bierce photography work art Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce photography inspirational art It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that? Amy Arbus photography mother trying In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white. Anders Petersen black-and-white color photography There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be. Anders Petersen differences photography sleep Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. Andre Bazin photography doe art Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it. Andre Bazin eye photography spiritual All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty. Andre Bazin flower photography art The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it. Andre Bazin photography men lying Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. Andre Bazin obsession photography art The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances. Andre Breton photography artist writing It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905) Andre Derain snapshots photography years The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. Andre Kertesz cameras photography giving Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph Andre Kertesz photography photographer enough For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography. Andre Kertesz careers photography memories «345678910111213»