Photograph Quotes - Page 7

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.