Photography Quotes - Page 11

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

Photography is a love affair with life.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.