On Photography Quotes

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].

Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

Gesture is not always action.

Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.

Allow yourself to lose your way.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

You cannot accurately remember color.

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results" colors.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

Photography has not invented anything.

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.