On Photography Quotes
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.
Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
