First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography. – Ralph Gibson
The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share. – Rashid Johnson
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. – Roman Jakobson
I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot – because I’m into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me. – Tyson Chandler
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it’s not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer. – Spike Lee
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. – Teju Cole
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. – Tony Benn
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn’t interest me. – William Eggleston
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. – Steven Pinker
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody’s hand. – Sally Mann
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography. – Stephen Sprouse
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it’s formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate. – Sebastiao Salgado
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. – W. Eugene Smith
Videos are more like photography. It’s not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images. – Tatyana Ali
When we started in the early ’60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn’t have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport. – Steve Sabol
I really like photography, and I’d like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography. – Sarah Snook
Increasingly, the work I’m doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I’m trying to explore how I feel about something through photography. – Sally Mann
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
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can’t. Lions were my professor of photography. – Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it’s too much. – Sebastiao Salgado
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. – Will Self