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“A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if he’s good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn’t expect to see.”

People Ifs Littles Eye Prove Photographer Photograph Permit Viewers Good Will

Author:Leon Levinstein

“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”

Looks Walks Photograph

Author:Leon Levinstein

“I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.”

Light Used Photograph Assistants Holland

Author:Anton Corbijn

“It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.”

Longing Photograph

Author:Anders Petersen

“My favorite photograph, is the one I will take tomorrow.”

Tomorrow Photograph My Favorite

Author:Pete Souza

“When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.”

Trying Use Instinct Photograph Evolve Irrational

Author:Jacob Aue Sobol

“I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter”

Photograph Painter Print

Author:Todd Hido

“A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.”

Thousand Ten Photography Photographer Photograph

Author:Edward Steichen

“To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.”

World Art Self Today Understanding Photography Training Photographer Photograph Imitation Basic Training

Author:Edward Steichen

“I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.”

Thinking Firsts Important Eye Taken Photography Fingers Photographer Photograph Angle Clicks

Author:Alfred Eisenstaedt

“I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.”

Photography Photograph Intellect Find Me

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to look a little deeper. The images get more interesting. The third time it is even more challenging and on each subsequent occasion, the images should get stronger, but it takes more effort to get them.”

Should Firsts Looks Littles Ends Challenges Interesting Effort Photography First Time Thirds Stronger Photographer Photograph Obvious Deeper Occasions Layers Third Time

Author:Michael Kenna

“Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.”

“Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.”

People Use Energy Left Memories Behinds Photography Garden Leaving Photographer Photograph Landscape Intimate Parks Left Behind Quintessential

Author:Michael Kenna

“Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.”

Humans Eye Impossible Photography Photographer Photograph Intriguing Cumulative Human Eyes

Author:Michael Kenna

“This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.”

Heart Photography Photographer Photograph Landscape

Author:Emmet Gowin

“Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.”

World Persons Made Photography Cameras Response Photographer Photograph Buttons Tourists Exterior Snapshots

Author:Eliot Porter

“Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.”

People Looks Shows Used Taken Trouble Photography Photographer Photograph

Author:Eliot Porter

“I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.”

May Used Purpose Photography Photographer Photograph Consideration

Author:Eliot Porter

“But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.”

“Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in her 80s for my book, Wise Women, who told me it had been a long time since anyone had really been interested in "seeing" or photographing her. When she saw the picture, she burst into tears. She saw something in the photograph, an inner beauty and soul, she felt had long ago vanished.”

“The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.”

People Kind Photography Photographer Photograph

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.”

Hands Eye Girl Courses Natural Saws Feet Photograph Tragic Pairs Delicate Blonde Adjectives Hands And Feet Delicate Life

Book:Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.”

Want Art Form Forget Greater Painting Photograph Disappear Mediums Forget You

Author:Bill Henson

“Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time.”

“I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.”

Firsts Looks Persons Home Sides Seeing Thousand Ocean First Time Rivers Crosses Distance Photograph Miles Bridges Towers Soar Miles Away Rooftops Eiffel Tower Eiffel

Book:The Sweetness of Forgetting

Source: The Sweetness of Forgetting

“The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.”

People Mind Important Stories Process Clear One Thing Photography Photograph Theme

Author:Peter Turnley

“Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko... all believed in the social role of art... Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.”

Art Action Social Roles Doors Streets Design Painting Fine Activity Photograph Studios Propaganda Engineering Connecting Fine Arts Typography Diagrams Social Roles Kandinsky

Author:John Berger

“Im just interested in what makes a photograph.”

Photograph

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.”

I Can Stories Body Action Perfect Photography Photograph Documents Extensions

Author:Chris Burkard

“You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light hits your pillow in your home, from a sound or a movement that makes you look... It’s whatever draws you or makes you feel something. Then, the picture is only good if it has a life of its own. Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it’s really good, it’s another form of life.”

Ifs Way Feels Looks Different Home Dream Light Form Sound Chance Fiction Movement Draws Photograph Different Ways Encounters Pillow Chance Encounters

Author:Sylvia Plachy

“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.”

Purpose Happened My Friends Cameras Photograph Innocent Purity Realism

Author:Larry Clark

“A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see”

Littles Eye Prove Photograph Permit Viewers

Author:Leon Levinstein

“What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.”

Natural Taken Photograph Picture Taken

Author:Peg Bracken

“It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.”

Looks Please Photography Garden Photograph Gardener Please Me

Author:Robert Breault

“For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process.”

Writing Years Would Be Lasts Three Process Months One Day Photograph Size Hotel Three Months

Author:Sophie Calle

“A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.”

Photography Photograph

Author:Susan Sontag

“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”

World Photography Photograph

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.”

Photography Photograph Ugliness

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.”

Photograph Insight Description

Author:Duane Michals

“Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.”

Use Painting Photograph Boring Painter Copies

Author:Duane Michals

“I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.”

People World Helping Differences Photograph Accomplishment

Author:Richard Avedon

“Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.”

Years Sometimes Done Wanted Film Opportunity Photograph Film Set Bergman

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Distance Photograph Admire Get Better

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times.”

Art Matter Motivation Order Stuff Fashion Materials Photograph Track Boxes Incomplete Unfinished Orderly Atlas

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness.”

Mean Art Hands Sides Roles Issues Information Negative Photograph Technique Composition Selection Fascination Eccentric Fortuitous

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source.”

Way Doe Perfect Style Source Photography Absolutes Photograph Unconditional Autonomous Informing

Author:Gerhard Richter

“A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. And that, to me, felt like an enrichment.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has presence; but it always yields a picture - no matter whether good or bad. That's all the theory. It's no good. I once took some small photographs and then smeared them with paint. That partly resolved the problem, and it's really good - better than anything I could ever say on the subject.”

Matter Problem Reality Subjects Painting Theory Photography Hundred Paint Photograph Yield Cents

Author:Gerhard Richter

“When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.”

Thinking Knows Kind Art Easy Painting Conscious Paint Photograph Realism Abstraction

Author:Gerhard Richter

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