314 Photography Quotes for You to Enjoy

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography. Gerard Malanga

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I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background. Gia Coppola

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For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate. Giles Duley

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When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography - I walked away from it completely - and started doing care work. Giles Duley

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' Graydon Carter

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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings. Harold Feinstein

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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was. Harold Feinstein

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I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker. Haskell Wexler

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Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character. Hedi Slimane

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Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography. Hedi Slimane

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

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I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later. Helena Christensen

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

Photography Culture Promote Generally Highly French Blood Arts

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking. Heston Blumenthal

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. J. C. Chandor

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I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. James Balog

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

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

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If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic. Jamie Chung

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