Photography Quotes

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

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

In the first avatar of Taliban in 1996 -2001, forget films, they did not even allow photography. The only photographers that were allowed to operate were passport photographers.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

When I was young, I felt my talent lay in photography, not movies.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

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

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

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

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

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

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!

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.

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.

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

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

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

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

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

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.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty. I want that in my photography. It isn't always what we conventionally think of as beauty.

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

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.