On Photography Quotes
Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)
Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.
When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.
