Photography Quotes
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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 joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
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Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.
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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 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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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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I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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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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Photography has no dark sides!
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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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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.
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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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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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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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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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Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
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Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.
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For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.
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The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
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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.
