Quotes & Sayings About Photography Perspective

The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves ... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings. — Salvador Dali

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. — Sophia Bush

Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means. — Vincent Laforet

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. — Dorothea Lange

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. — Criss Jami

Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans. — Al Franken

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man - secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it - is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God. — C. Wright Mills

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do. — Dolly Parton

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops. — David Hockney

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective. — Katja Michael

If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home. — Rachel Ticotin

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens. — Lamar Giles

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe . And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world. — David Hockney

Our eyes captures thousands of beautiful pictures everyday. — Pradeepa Pandiyan

Photography is all about the perspective! — Pradeepa Pandiyan

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. — Miguel Syjuco

And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game. — Antoine D'Agata

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that. — Chelsea Cain

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. — Benjamin Franklin