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If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic. -- Bill Jay
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community. -- Robert Adams
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. -- Ben Shahn
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. -- Mia Wasikowska
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. -- Will Self
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. -- Ben Shahn
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. -- Arnold Newman
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. -- Arnold Newman
I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking. -- Walead Beshty
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. -- Alfred Stieglitz
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. -- Imogen Cunningham
I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me. -- Gia Coppola
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. -- Camille Paglia
What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out. -- Alix Smith
Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on. -- Elliott Erwitt
Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood. -- Edvard Munch
Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration. -- Pierre Bourdieu
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about. -- Garry Winogrand
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something. -- William Mortensen

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