On Photography Quotes
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.
Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.
I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.
There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.
My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.
...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.
To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.
The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us
I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.