"Great photography is always on the edge of failure."

-- Garry Winogrand

#Photography Quotes

“Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.”
“We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.”

Source : "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg". Interview in Torgrim Eggen, 2001.
“I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.”

Source : Speech at the University of Oregon, 2004.
“When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.”

Source : John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books
“There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.”
“At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources. This intermittent feature was curious, and I recall saying once that we would have to investigate the origin of that interference some day. We joked that it was probably due to the faulty ignition of some farm hand returning from a date.”
“It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""”
“Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.”

You may also like:

Diane Arbus
Photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographer
Joel Meyerowitz
Photographer
John Szarkowski
Photographer
Lee Friedlander
Photographer
Robert Frank
Photographer
Walker Evans
Photographer
William Eggleston
Photographer
William Klein
Photographer