Modern Photography Quotes

#1. Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.

Max Dupain

#2. I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)

Gertrude Kasebier

#3. Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

Sebastian Bach

#4. I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

Norman Reedus

#5. We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.

George Spencer-Brown

#6. The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

Larry Burkett

#7. The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.

Billy Corgan

#8. I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#9. In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.

Susan Sontag

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

Wallace Stevens

#11. One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

Jacqueline Leo

#12. We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

Lester R. Brown

#13. There is no such thing as a secret - not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses.

Robert Harris

#14. She gets that words are sometimes bullshit and people don't mean what they say and through it all it's only actions that matter.

Katy Evans

#15. I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

Paul Outerbridge

#16. Modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#17. The painters have no copyright on modern art! ... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

Edward Weston

#18. My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

Tamara Mellon

#19. I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

Leon Golub

#20. Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

Ernst Haas

#21. Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Major Owens

#22. God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.

J. Edwin Orr

#23. Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

Susan Sontag

#24. I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.

Jimmy Kimmel

#25. One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

Mick Ralphs

#26. The three-part whats to winning:
1. What you have.
2. What you need.
3. What you believe.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#27. Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

Lisette Model