List Of Photography Quotes

I Would Never Understand Photography, The Sneaky, Murderous Taxidermy Of It.

I Have No Fear Of Photography As Long As It Cannot Be Used In Heaven And In Hell.

The Camera Will Never Compete With The Brush And The Palette, Until Such Time As Photographs Can Be Taken In Heaven Or Hell.

Photography Is An Art Which Touches And Grips One's Own Heart's Blood.

I'm Not An Abstractionist. I'm Not Interested In The Relationship Of Color Or Form Or Anything Else. I'm Interested Only In Expressing Basic Human Emotions: Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, And So On.

As For The Various Kinds Of Montage Photography, They Are In Reality Not Photography At All But A Kind Of Painting In Which Photography Is Used - As Pastiches Of Textiles Are Used In Crazy-quilts - To Form A Mosaic. Whatever Value The Montage May Have Derives From Painting Rather Than The Camera.

It Is A Cruel, Ironical Art, Photography. The Dragging Of Captured Moments Into The Future; Moments That Should Have Been Allowed To Be Evaporate Into The Past; Should Exist Only In Memories, Glimpsed Through The Fog Of Events That Came After. Photographs Force Us To See People Before Their Future Weighed Them Down.

One Of The Most Recent Things We Did [in Perceval Press] Is A Reissue Of A Fantastic Documentary About Russian Prison Tattoo Culture By Alix Lambert Called The Mark Of Cain. We've Done Books From Twilight Of Empire, That Actually Has Forewords By Howard Zinn And Dennis Kucinich And Others, To Books Of Poetry, Photography, Painting - All Kinds Of Books.

Photography, Painting Or Poetry - Those Are Just Extensions Of Me, How I Perceive Things; They Are My Way Of Communicating.

If We Examine A Work Of Ordinary Art, By Means Of A Powerful Microscope, All Traces Of Resemblance To Nature Will Disappear - But The Closest Scrutiny Of The Photogenic Drawing Discloses Only A More Absolute Truth, A More Perfect Identity Of Aspect With The Thing Represented.

The Very Idea Of Photography Is As Oliver Wendell Holmes Said In The 19th Century, "it's A Mirror With A Memory."

If You Take 2001: A Space Odyssey As An Example Of Somebody Who Creates A New Language In Film By What He Was Able To Accomplish With Art Direction, Photography, Lighting, Etc., It Is Still A Gold Standard For Science Fiction.