Quotes about photograph
photography independent light
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. Henri Cartier-Bresson
photography facts common
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
photography thinking people
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
photography important photographer
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
photography moments eternity
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
photography animal prey
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
photography together mixtures
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
photography taken force
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
photography hunters shooting
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
photography today spontaneity
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
photography mean expression
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
photography heart eye
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
photography eye essence
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
photography important leica
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
photography believe discovery
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.
photography expression organization
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
photography art creativity
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
photography drawing care
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
photography skins trying
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
photography artist portraits
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
photography mean expression
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
photography reality want
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
photography balance elements
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
photography views photographer
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
photography cameras moments
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
photography taken light
And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it.
photography taken dark
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
photography thinking done
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
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.