Photography Quotes
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I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
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I had been teaching myself photography.
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...the very basics of photography can be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
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I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.
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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.
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We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
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I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
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I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
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I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.
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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
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I don't know many things about me and photography. I know I'm instinct. I participate in dancing even if I'm not a good dancer; it is difficult to go in but when you get inside it's more difficult to get out.
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Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
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Let a man of genius make use of photography as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
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Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.
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I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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Photography has no dark sides!
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I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
