Arthur Tress Quotes

The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.

Arthur Tress

• Photographer
• Magician
• Associations

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• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Photographer

• I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Photographer
  • Definition
  • Documentary

• Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

  

  John Travolta
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  

  Weegee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

  

  Weegee
  • Religious
  • Cameras
  • Photographer

• I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Looks
  • Photography

• Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Photography

• I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Photographer

• Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Stupid

• For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Memories

• Photography is my only language.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Language
  • Photography
  • Photographer

• The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Important
  • True
  • Light

• Cameron Rogers writes like a magician.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • Writing
  • Magician
  • Roger

• When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.

  

  Philippe Halsman
  • People
  • Photographer
  • Pushed

• a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Different
  • Photographer
  • Realism

• Photography just gets us out of the house.

  

  William Eggleston
  • House
  • Photography
  • Photographer

• I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Want
  • Facts
  • Musician

• It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop does not count as an artist.

  

  Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco
  • Artist
  • Photographer
  • Disgusting

• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Society
  • Rule
  • Enemies

• I'm kind of pinching myself in the morning. Like, wait, you really did pray to have a body of work that stays diversified and interesting. And I have it!

  

  Nia Long
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Morning

• Yeah, I am in love. I'm definitely in love. She picked me up in a bar, actually. She walked by and just looked at me and smiled and I went 'Hey' and she goes, 'Hey'. I was just like, 'Oh my God', she took my breath away.

  

  Darren McMullen
  • Bars
  • Breaths
  • Yeah

• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Hate
  • Despise
  • Despised

• The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.

  

  Arthur Tress
  • Photographer
  • Magician
  • Associations