Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Winogrand

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

Garry Winogrand

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

Garry Winogrand

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

Garry Winogrand

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.

Garry Winogrand

A photograph can look any way.

Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

Garry Winogrand

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

Garry Winogrand

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

Garry Winogrand

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

Garry Winogrand

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

Garry Winogrand

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Garry Winogrand

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

Garry Winogrand

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

Garry Winogrand

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

Garry Winogrand

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

Garry Winogrand

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Garry Winogrand

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Garry Winogrand

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

Garry Winogrand

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

Garry Winogrand

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Garry Winogrand

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Garry Winogrand

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

George Eastman

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

George Eastman

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

George Eastman

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Federico Fellini

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

Fay Godwin

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

Fay Godwin

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Fay Godwin

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Fay Godwin

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Eve Arnold

I came to photography by accident.

Eve Arnold

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

Eve Arnold

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.