On Photography Quotes
On Photography Quote of the day
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera