1,962 Quotes About Photography

  • Author Ruth Bernhard
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    Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.

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  • Author Ruth Bernhard
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    A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

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  • Author Ruth Bernhard
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    Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

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  • Author Ruth Bernhard
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    If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

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  • Author Sophia Bush
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    So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

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  • Author Syd Barrett
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    A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

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  • Author Walead Beshty
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    I'm not particularly invested in, nor do I really care about, photography in a general sense. It's a medium that's relatively ubiquitous, readily accessible, and that I have some facility with, so it makes sense for me to use it.

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