Quotes about photograph
photography forever goes-on
I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either. Harry Callahan
photography mysterious i-can
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
photography prayer
A picture is like a prayer.
photography believe people
I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
photography prayer offering
A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.
photography strong believe
I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
photography thinking alive
I think I came alive when I started photography.
photography art real
You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.
photography talking done
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
photography art real
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
photography people matter
It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.
photography thinking expression
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
photography adventure life-is
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
photography adventure men
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.
photography book simple
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
photography shots
I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
photography adventure people
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
photography lying accessories
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. Harold Evans
photography children distance
Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women. J. G. Ballard
photography book mean
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there. Lou Reed
photography intimate-moments learning-something-new
I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be. Lynsey Addario
photography thinking people
People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.
photograph draws dies
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies John Fowles
photography dog choices
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording. Jonathan Lethem
photography moving thinking
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened. Jon Snow
photography eye thanks
Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly. Paul Valery
photography letters moments
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.
photography simple historical-knowledge
The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?
photography giving-up giving
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
photography names vision
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
photography mean people
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph. Paul Strand
photography honesty expression
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.
photography thinking self
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.