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  • Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. -- Fay Godwin
  • I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras. -- David Suchet
  • There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. -- Ernst Haas
  • When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days. -- Ann Beattie
  • I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique. -- Penelope Cruz
  • One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones. -- Sunidhi Chauhan
  • We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster. -- Gerhard Richter
  • But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. -- David Hockney
  • As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. -- Sam Abell
  • When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash. -- Lauren Greenfield
  • I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better. -- Mary Ellen Mark
  • With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important. -- Aaron Ruell
  • So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera. -- John Sexton
  • ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. -- Sebastiao Salgado
  • I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras. -- Leonard Nimoy
  • My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did. -- Anton Corbijn
  • 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. -- Jessica Lange
  • The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family. -- Jeffrey Pierce
  • For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job. -- Leonard Nimoy
  • I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go. -- Michael Mann
  • Photography begins not in the camera but in the -- Bill Atkinson
  • The camera is the least important element in photography. -- Julius Shulman
  • There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop -- Tyra Banks
  • I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. -- Lewis Baltz
  • Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't. -- David Hockney
  • I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. -- Sarah Sutton
  • The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. -- Walker Evans
  • Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures. -- Todd Walker
  • In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. -- Ansel Adams
  • I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. -- Trent Parke
  • There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. -- Ralph Steiner
  • The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell. -- Edvard Munch
  • Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. -- Lisette Model
  • My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. -- William Eggleston
  • Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject. -- Margaret Bourke-White
  • The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
  • Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting. -- Rankin
  • You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it. -- Thomas Ruff
  • Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty. -- Daido Moriyama
  • To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could, -- John Carter Cash
  • You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography. -- Ernst Haas
  • Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel. -- Nikolay Semyonov
  • My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you. -- Pedro Almodovar
  • Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded. -- Igor Babailov
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