“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, discipline of mind, [...]
Archive for the ‘Photography Quotes’ Category
Richard Avedon Quotes
On August - 16 - 2010
Richard Avedon Quotes on photography Youth never moves me. I seldom see anything very beautiful in a young face. I do, though – - in the downward curve of Maugham’s lips, in Isak Dinesen’s hands. So much has been written there, there is so much to be read, if one could only read. I feel [...]
Selected quotes from Susan Sontag
On May - 13 - 2010
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. – Susan Sontag Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: [...]
Selected quotes from Ansel Adams
On May - 13 - 2010
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~Ansel Adams There are no rules for good photographs, there are only [...]
Photography Quotes, mixed
On February - 13 - 2010
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~Author Unknown No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams It’s weird that photographers spend years or even [...]
