Quotes about photography
photography mean expression
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. Henri Cartier-Bresson
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.
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.