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.
Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
I've spent so much of my life examining the smallest details. In some ways, it's where I feel most at home. For me, it's super-important to understand all of the different nuances of light and shade. But if you can't paint in primary colours, no one's going to listen to your songs, because they need to feel like something.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
The body says what words cannot.
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