Photography Quotes - Page 28

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

You push the button, we do the rest.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.