Photography Quotes - Page 89

Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I can't even remember her name now. I ended up going to boarding school for my last high school years and they had a dark room there. Of course there was curfew; you were supposed to be in bed at a certain time. But I would sneak out and sneak into the dark room and work all night.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

The problem suggests the solution.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.

When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.

Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.

Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.

Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.

One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.

It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.