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"The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off."

George Bernard Shaw Topics: Appearance Photography

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."

Dorothea Lange Topics: American Photographer Photography

"[The single-use camera doesn't threaten digital photography because it's] really just an on ramp to a digital image, ... Scan it in and you have a digital image. After that, you are more likely to move into the digital camera market."

Bruce Chizen Topics: Photography

"Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?"

Jane Welsh Topics: Photography

"Often, I would paint from a photograph, or from a magazine layout. Photography has taught me to see shapes. Before, I only saw a pretty flower. Now, I see shadows and things behind the flower that form a special shape. A macro lens allows me to photograph the things most people never see."

Jim Schupp Topics: Photography

"Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, ""Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."""

John Loengard Topics: Photography

"Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well."

Lewis Carroll Topics: Photography

"At least the box is full of something useful. [On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran]"

Avery Brooks Topics: Photography

"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good."

Wallace Stevens Topics: Photography

"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."

Man Ray Topics: American Photographer Dreams Photography

"The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again."

Peter Conrad Topics: Photography

"We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman."

Ludwig Wittgenstein Topics: Man Photography

"Photography lets me use the other side of my brain. I can look around anywhere and know immediately what attracts my eye. Photography provides balance in my life."

Jim Schupp Topics: Photography

"] convention, but I'm busy with my photography."

Leonard Nimoy Topics: Photography

"Photography is truth."

Jean-Luc Godard Topics: Photography

"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it."

John Berger Topics: Photography

"Jim is kind of the constant to photography in Denver, on a lot of levels. He's a historical archive."

John Grant Topics: Photography

"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."

Ansel Adams Topics: Creation Photography

"I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it."

Ansel Adams Topics: Photography

"The camera can photograph thought"

Dirk Bogarde Topics: Photography

"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."

Henri Cartier-Bresson Topics: French Photographer Photography

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