Quotes about photograph
photography art mirrors
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. Chuck Close
photography moving thinking
It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.
photography inspiration photographer
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
photography media different
The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
photography inspiration clouds
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
photography looks likes
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
photography artist enemy
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
photography art way
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
photography vision mediums
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
photography attention maps
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
photography expression photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels. Ansel Adams
photography cameras abstract
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
photography destiny firsts
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
photography men giving
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
photography believe assessment
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
photography simple technique
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
photography spiritual reflection
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.
photography weather good-photography
Bad weather makes for good photography.
photography negative moments
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
photography interesting honor
We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."
photography writing spectators
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
photograph feels
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
photography art reality
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
photography cameras photographer
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
photography dust filters
I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!
photography eye thinking
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
photography black-and-white color
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
photography gratitude appreciation
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.
photography accessories gadgets
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...
photography creative etching
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
photography black-and-white reality
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
photography eye sight
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
photography expression imagination
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.