Photography Quotes - Page 6

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.