Quotes About Artistic Photography

#1. The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.

Gertrude Kasebier

#2. There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim ...

Gertrude Kasebier

#3. Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

Alexander Rodchenko

#4. Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

Charlie Munger

#5. We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Joseph Stalin

#6. Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

Ernst Haas

#7. Itch to read, scratch to understand.

Peter Greenaway

#8. Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Jerzy Kosinski

#9. The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. It is easier to trick with charm than with aggression.

Nick Lake

#11. We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.

Piet Zwart

#12. Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

Ben Shahn

#13. When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

Andy Rooney

#14. I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

Edward Weston

#15. The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

Alfred Stieglitz

#16. Some people may be more gifted than others, but excellence in writing, as in any art form or craft, involves discipline and practice.

James B. Stewart

#17. Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Ken Follett

#18. The greatest pollution problem is not found in the atmosphere, water, or soil; but in the minds of 90% of the population, which are contaminated with negative thoughts and beliefs.

Maddy Malhotra

#19. 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

#20. We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

Jose Saramago

#21. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the world who has a strong drive to testify, which I can do because I have the privilege of living in New York with enough food to eat and shelter.

Teju Cole

#23. Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

Thomas F. Wilson