photography quotes

It's funny: you hate authorityand thenyour photography takes on an authority.

- Colin Baker
In The Mail on Sunday,14 Oct.

If photography is allowed to stand in forart in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thankstothenatural support it will find inthestupidityof themultitude.It must return toits real task, which isto be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

- Charles Baudelaire
  'Salon of1859', section 2, in Curiosite  s Esthe  tiques (1868).

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

-John Peter Berger
  In the New Statesman, 22/29 Dec.

   La photographie, c'est la ve  rite  . Le cine  ma: la ve  rite   vingt- quatre fois par seconde. Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

-Jean-Luc Godard
  Le Petit Soldat.

   Photography was conceived as a mirror of the universal elements and emotions ofthe everydayness of lifeas a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world.

- Edward Jean Steichen
Quoted in Dialogue, May1989.