Photography Quotes - Page 38

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that's all your doing, it still a very very worth while profession to be involved in.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.