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We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.Collection: Photography
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.Collection: Photography
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.Collection: Photography
If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.Collection: Photography
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.Collection: Photography
The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.Collection: Photography
I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.Collection: Photography
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.Collection: Photography
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.Collection: Photography
I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.Collection: Photography
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.Collection: Photography
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.Collection: Photography
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.Collection: Photography
In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.Collection: Photography
...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.Collection: Photography
Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.Collection: Photography
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.Collection: Photography
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.Collection: Photography
I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?Collection: Photography
This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.Collection: Photography
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.Collection: Photography
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.Collection: Photography
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.Collection: Photography
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.Collection: Photography
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.Collection: Photography
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.Collection: Photography
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.Collection: Photography
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.Collection: Photography
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.Collection: Photography
Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.Collection: Photography
A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.Collection: Photography
Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.Collection: Photography
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaningCollection: Photography
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.Collection: Photography
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the buttonCollection: Photography
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.Collection: Photography
Photography is art when it's used by an artist.Collection: Photography
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.Collection: Photography
Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.Collection: Photography
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.Collection: Photography
Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.Collection: Photography
Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the worldCollection: Photography
In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.Collection: Photography
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.Collection: Photography
I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.Collection: Photography
The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.Collection: Photography
I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.Collection: Photography
The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.Collection: Photography
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...Collection: Photography