Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Interpretation
Photography enhances your vision and perception rather than emotions.
This quote emphasizes the idea that photography is not merely an outlet for our emotional expressions but rather a skill that sharpens our ability to observe the world around us. It suggests that through the lens of a camera, one learns to perceive details, patterns, and beauty that may otherwise go unnoticed in daily life, therefore improving oneβs overall awareness and insight.
In practice
During a photography workshop, I shared this quote to highlight the importance of observation.
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Photography helps people to see.
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just as good in somebody else's work too. You want to hold out for those things only you can say.
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
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