Photography Quotes - Page 3

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.