Photographic Equipment Quotes

I would love to study photography.

I never really learned photography.

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

Did you notice what happened when digital photography arrived? Suddenly there were four times as many people on set for a shoot! It used to be a photographer, a couple of photo assistants, stylist and a fashion assistant, hair and make-up and that was about it.

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

I had been teaching myself photography.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.