If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.
Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.
I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices
A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?
Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.
If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.
I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.
Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.
