Photography Quotes - Page 13

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head spin. It's almost as if I can actually sense all the great pictures that I'm missing at a given moment. It's times like those that remind me to be very productive when I do get behind-the-camera time.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.

Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph