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Quotes About Expression

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.
~ Ben Shahn
I did painting before I did photography.
~ David Bailey
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
~ Sean Durkin
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
~ Ben Shahn
Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.
~ Dianna Agron
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.
~ Georgia May Jagger
I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.
~ Anton Corbijn
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
~ Deborah Copaken Kogan
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
~ Terry Richardson
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.
~ Pedro Almodovar
My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.
~ Nikki Sixx
I never read about photography.
~ Sally Mann
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
~ Gia Coppola
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
~ Don McCullin
I am a huge obsessor with photography.
~ Jonathan Anderson
I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.
~ James Lapine
I love creating. I had been really into photography when I was in college.
~ Susan Wojcicki
Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.
~ John Lanchester
Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I would say, if I had any hobbies, I love photography. I love taking photographs.
~ Kellie Martin
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.
~ Juergen Teller
I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.
~ Lil Xan