Hot Quotes - Page 34

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Photographers are always imposing

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didnt exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. This has influenced my work a lot - I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.