#photograph

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#documentary #documentary film #film #five #got

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#great #great way #i #photography #relaxing

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. ↗

— David Bruce

#conversations #derived #entirely #health #knowledge

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. ↗

— Robert Capa

#hope #i #life #my life #photographer

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. ↗

— Chuck Close

#i #paint #photograph #really #somebody

But I've always been a sucker for externals alone: the shape, the shine, what the surface suggests to my palm. So mechanically disinclined it's verging on criminal, I never understood the beauty of an object's workings until Linny sat my reluctant self down one day and showed me her camera. Within fifteen minutes, I had fallen hard for the whole gadgety, eyelike nature of the thing: a tiny piece of glass slowing, bending, organizing light - light - into your grandmother, the Grand Canyon, the begonia on the windowsill, the film keeping the image like a secret. Grandmother, canyon, begonia tucked neatly into the sleek black box, like bugs in a jar. My mind boggled. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#beauty

If they want a photograph, then just take it. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#photograph #take #then #want

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. ↗

— Robert Frank

#black #black and white #colors #despair #forever

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. ↗

— Robert Frank

#am #conscious #i #i always #i am

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

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