Photography Quotes - Page 10

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

The camera is the least important element in photography.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

All photography is propaganda.

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.