On Photography Quotes
You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.