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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

Quotes by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

Quotes by William Albert Allard

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Quotes by Val Kilmer

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Quotes by Tony Benn

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Quotes by Todd Phillips

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Quotes by Tipper Gore

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Quotes by Teju Cole

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Quotes by Steven Soderbergh

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Quotes by Steve Sabol

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Quotes by Sol LeWitt

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado

I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

Quotes by Sean Durkin

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

Quotes by Scott Kelby

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

Quotes by Saul Leiter

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

Quotes by Saul Leiter

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

Quotes by Sarah Parcak

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Quotes by Sam Abell

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

Quotes by Sam Abell

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

Quotes by Ryan Lewis

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

Quotes by Ruth Bernhard

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

Quotes by Rene Burri

There's something about light field photography that's just magical.

Quotes by Ren Ng

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

Quotes by Ren Ng

I had been teaching myself photography.

Quotes by Ree Drummond

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

Quotes by Ralph Gibson

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

Quotes by Platon

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Quotes by Pieter Zeeman

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Quotes by Parker Stevenson

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

Quotes by Pamela Hanson

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

Quotes by P. J. Harvey

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

Quotes by Ori Gersht

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

Quotes by Ori Gersht

Photography has always been about capturing light.

Quotes by Om Malik

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

Quotes by Nigel Dennis

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

Quotes by Mick Fleetwood

I've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.

Quotes by Melanie Martinez

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

Quotes by Melanie Mayron

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Quotes by Matthew Modine

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Quotes by Matthew Modine

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

Quotes by Martellus Bennett

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Quotes by Mario Testino

Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.

Quotes by Lynsey Addario

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

Quotes by Lisa Kristine

I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

Quotes by Lil Xan

I've been working with photography for many years.

Quotes by Leonard Nimoy

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

Quotes by Leonard Nimoy

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

Quotes by Lauren Greenfield

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

Quotes by Lauren Greenfield

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

Quotes by Kim Weston

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

Quotes by Kim Weston

I just don't like to do photography for money.

Quotes by Kim Shattuck

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

Quotes by Kim Shattuck

I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.

Quotes by Killer Mike

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

Quotes by Kerry Stokes

I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.

Quotes by Kellie Martin

I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

Quotes by Juergen Teller

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

Quotes by Joshua Foer

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

Quotes by John Sexton

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

Quotes by John Sexton

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

Quotes by John Lanchester

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

Quotes by John Baldessari

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

Quotes by Johan Renck

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Quotes by Joel Sternfeld

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Quotes by Joe McNally

I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.

Quotes by Jimmy Chin

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

Quotes by Jessica Lange

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Quotes by Jessica Lange

I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Quotes by Janet Weiss

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Quotes by James Wong Howe

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

Quotes by James Lapine

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Quotes by Herb Ritts

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Quotes by Herb Ritts

Speaking of photography, while the Apollo 8 crew shot hundreds of photos, there was one that got everybody's attention: a blue-and-white Earth rising over a gray moonscape.

Quotes by Henry Spencer

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

Quotes by Helen Mirren

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

Quotes by Hanneli Mustaparta

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

Quotes by Graydon Carter

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

Quotes by Giles Duley

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

Quotes by Gerard Malanga

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Quotes by Galen Rowell

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Quotes by Galen Rowell

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann

I wanted to be a director of photography for a while, because I'm fascinated by what they do. You're made to look good by them and you can learn so much from talking to them.

Quotes by Freddie Fox

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Quotes by Francesco Carrozzini

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Quotes by Fay Godwin

I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

Quotes by Fatima Sana Shaikh

I came to photography by accident.

Quotes by Eve Arnold

I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion.

Quotes by Emily Osment

I love Instagram and photography.

Quotes by Emily Atack

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Quotes by Elliott Erwitt

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Quotes by Edward Steichen

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Quotes by Edward Steichen

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Quotes by Duane Michals

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