Photography Quotes
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Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
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When you move handheld, and the director of photography has the courage to shoot with no lights, the set becomes a space of creativity and freedom where actors can move wherever they want to move.
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Photography must be integrated with the story.
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My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
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Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
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...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.
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Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
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I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
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My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
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Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
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The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.
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In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
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Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
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I wanted to go to the end of photography.
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I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
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Good photography is unpretentious.
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Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.
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I think I came alive when I started photography.
