Quotes about photo
photography thinking done
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Henri Cartier-Bresson
photography eye expression
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
photography eye expression
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
photography hunters next
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
photography forever life-is
Life is once. Forever.
photography thinking secret
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
photograph
Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
photography heart mean
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
photography shapes rhythm
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
photography intuition stage
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
photography realizing moments
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
photography reality joy
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
photography earth vanishing
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
photography photographer art-photography
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
photography luck courses
Of course it's all luck.
photography echoes people
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
photography self intuition
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.
photography forever missing
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
photography giving leica
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
photography eye moments
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
photography art creativity
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
photography sharpness bourgeois
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
photography book intuition
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
photography way originality
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
photography eye soul
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
photography details littles
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
photography heart eye
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
photography lasts problem
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Gabriel Lippmann
photography thinking want
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy. Gabriel Byrne
photography jobs believe
If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors. Frank Capra
photographer supposed-to-be accidents
I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer. Christopher Anderson
photography interesting feelings
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.
photography soul pieces
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. Isabel Allende