Hot Quotes - Page 18

The camera can photograph thought.

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head spin. It's almost as if I can actually sense all the great pictures that I'm missing at a given moment. It's times like those that remind me to be very productive when I do get behind-the-camera time.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.