#photo

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#clothes #control #could #except #i

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#band #clothes #friend #hanging #i

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened. ↗

— Robert Stack

#air #air force #because #belgian #believe

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. ↗

— Layne Staley

#drawing #led #me #music #photography

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#famous #i #intoxicated #larger #life

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. ↗

— David Strathairn

#biographies #get #heard #him #his

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. ↗

— Arnold Newman

#combined #each #equals #hold #ideas

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#photography #guns

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#camera #photography #artists

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it. ↗

— Stefan Balint

#photography #art