Quotes about photography
photography memories light
Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost. George Eastman
photography creativity keys
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
photography art jobs
At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art. Ferran Adria
photography real responsibility
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity. Henri Cartier-Bresson
photography technology important
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
photography organization facts
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
photography too-late leica
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
photography running believe
The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.
photography distance waiting
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
photography dancer pockets
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
photography leica great-photography
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
photography memories shooting
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
photography leica photograph
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
photography memes
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
photography cutting reality
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?
photography real essence
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
photography vanishing photographer
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing...
photography running flow
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.
photography painting concerned
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
photography details world
In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
photography intuition documentaries
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
photography stories shooting
Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.
photography accepted should
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
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.
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.