Hot Quotes - Page 24

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

To become a photographer leave your house first.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Photograph each day so we can live forever

I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.

Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.