Quotes about photograph
photography distance waiting
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. Henri Cartier-Bresson
photography dancer pockets
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
photography leica great-photography
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
photography memories shooting
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.
photography leica photograph
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
photography memes
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
photography cutting reality
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?
photography real essence
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
photographer strollers
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
photography vanishing photographer
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing...
photography running flow
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
photography painting concerned
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
photography details world
In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.
photography intuition documentaries
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
photography stories shooting
Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.
photography accepted should
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
photography independent light
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.
photography facts common
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.
photography thinking people
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
photography important photographer
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
photography moments eternity
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
photography animal prey
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
photography together mixtures
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
photography taken force
A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
photography hunters shooting
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.
photography today spontaneity
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.
photography mean expression
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
photography heart eye
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
photography eye essence
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
photography important leica
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
photography believe discovery
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.
photography expression organization
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
photography art creativity
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.