Quotes About Abstract Photography

#1. Humans abstract and record information in five major ways: with writing, mathematical notation, painting/photography/videography, maps, and clocks - that is, we can abstract and record verbal, numerical, visual, spatial, and temporal information.

William J. Bernstein

#2. Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#3. Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

Mel Bochner

#4. Trouble was coming, sure, but it's always coming, and meanwhile it's best to live with a smile.

Dean Koontz

#5. I can't always reach the image in my mind ... almost never, in fact ... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

Chuck Close

#6. In the cosmos of time, there's not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind!

Daniel S. Pena

#7. [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

James Nachtwey

#8. In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

Ansel Adams

#9. At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#10. By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

Neil Postman

#11. To deal with the chaos of life, I escape into the prism of glass, dancing to the visual music in my mind. My photographs express my interior movement from darkness into light and back.

Polly Norman

#12. In the hands of food manufacturers, cheese has become an 'ingredient.'

Michael Moss

#13. I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

Ralph Gibson

#14. The burden of proof is now on the doubters.

Robert K. Wilcox

#15. If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

E. J. Hughes

#16. Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know.

David Levi Strauss