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Image of Bruce Gilden
I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.
- Bruce Gilden
Collection: Photography
Image of Mark Lawson
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.
- Mark Lawson
Collection: Photography
Image of Walter Sickert
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
- Walter Sickert
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Life is once. Forever.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photography
Image of Mathew Brady
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
- Mathew Brady
Collection: Photography
Image of Mathew Brady
I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.
- Mathew Brady
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of Harry Callahan
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.
- Harry Callahan
Collection: Photography
Image of El Lissitzky
Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.
- El Lissitzky
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Photography