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An artist’s job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master – be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.
ANONYMOUS

Art Artist Breathe Creativity Function Job Medium Photography
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
MARCEL PROUST

Dignity Existence Photography Reality
I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you’ll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That’s the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It’s all about your angles.
HAILEY BIEBER

Instagram Kind People Photography Pose See Trick Yourself
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECK

Color Hairs Myself Photography
When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Artist Myself Photography Young
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
JACK KEROUAC

Bright Day Light Need Photography Rain Sun
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
SALVADOR DALI

Capture Fact Invention Photography Reality Secret
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
ROLAND BARTHES

Death Determination Photography Young
The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
AI WEIWEI

Itself Mean Photography Practice Reality Recording
…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
ABELARDO MORELL

Media Photography Picture Potent Strange
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Audience Drive Myself Photography Realize
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAY

Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
I could take a photo, but I’d rather paint a picture.
MAC MILLER

Painting Photography Picture
There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It’s getting very dull now.
ABELARDO MORELL

Done Forever Lot Photography Point Social Untruth
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
ROLAND BARTHES

Death Ourselves Photography Return
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
ROLAND BARTHES

Notable Order Photography Sophistication Value
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
ROLAND BARTHES

History Invention Photography Review
Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.
EDVARD MUNCH

Art Blood Heart Oneself Photography Touch
I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.
GROUCHO MARX

Footprint Photography Socks Upstairs
In the final analysis, photography… is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
ABIGAIL SOLOMON GODEAU

Analysis Final Gun Hired Hireling Photography
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
DOROTHEA LANGE

Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography
Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.”
AARON SCHARF

Art Artfulness Artist Cooking Hand Make Medium Painting Photography Talking
… photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated – as though it had created itself.
ABIGAIL SOLOMON GODEAU

Camera Efface Film Making Mark Photography Self Video
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
AISHA HINDS

Actor Audience Character Crew Depth Each Layer Name People Photography Sign Work
When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Artist Myself Photography Young

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