Photography Quotes - Page 58

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; it’s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.

I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing - that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could've told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

Part of it has to do with the discipline of being actively receptive. At the core of this receptivity is a process that might be called soft eyes. It is a physical sensation. You are not looking for something. You are open, receptive. At some point you are in front of something that you cannot ignore.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

I like to take things as they come and, as much as possible, not force anything. I think I could wind up somewhere completely different five years from now, something completely removed from acting - I could be perfectly content studying photography or English literature. At the same time, I love what I'm doing right now and could see doing this for a very long time.

I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

There is no special way a photograph should look.