#photograph

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

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#down #get #i #keep #lot

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

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#good #photographer #simplest

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#artistic #beautiful #did #i #modeling

I had been teaching myself photography. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#had #i #myself #photography #teaching

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#cannot #comprehend #convey #experience #film

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

#arts #departments #distinct #equally #expression

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#blessing #filled #my time #photography #time

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#exclusion #had #i #over #photography