Quotes on Photograph

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.