I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .
But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.
'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.
The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.
This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.
If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up.
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.
If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.
Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.
'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.
Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.
Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.
