Photography Quotes - Page 9

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "

I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.