Quotes about photography
photography mistake mad
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. Sam Abell
photography appeals deny
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
photography vivid scene
Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
photography light important
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
photography moving thoughtful
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.
photography mean priorities
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.
photography art desire
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
photography littles matter
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
photography photographer best-work
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
photography photographer asks
I like photographers-you don't ask questions. Ronald Reagan
photography school downtown
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. William Eggleston
photography art black-and-white
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
photography attitude today
I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
photography house
Photography just gets us out of the house.
photography drinking house
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
photography war obvious
I am at war with the obvious.
photography people answers
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
photography lions taught
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you. Yann Arthus-Bertrand
photography writing lions
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
photography art photographer
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.
photography skills growth
I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and have the skills to symbolize visually the four-dimensional structure of the universe. Wynn Bullock
photography unique thinking
A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects. I was seeing things, instead, as dynamic events, unique in their own beings yet also related and existing together within a universal context of energy and change.
photography art creativity
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.
photography way profession
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
photography real unique
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.
photography picture-taking intuition
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you've done. So that's why I say that reason and intuition are not in conflict-they strengthen each other.
photography eye past
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.
photography dirty unique
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.
photography space events
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
photography mean knowing
Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.
photography lying journey
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.
photography weed tree
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
photography lying waiting
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.