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“The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?”

Knows Mind May Ends Eye Artist Process Creation Photography Discovery Cameras Bounds Photographer Contemporary Being True Rapport

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.”

Way Real Reality Levels Seeing Particular Photography Photographer Developing New Ways

Author:Wynn Bullock

“It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.”

Humans Important Seems School Given Social Race Cities Photography Landscape Human Race Significance Naive Pictorial

Book:The letters between Edward Weston and Willard Van Dyke

Source: The letters between Edward Weston and Willard Van Dyke

“As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.”

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.”

Feels Art Space Creativity Events Photography All Things Photographer Photograph Time And Space Interacting Space Time

Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and have the skills to symbolize visually the four-dimensional structure of the universe.”

Universe Growth Term Four Skills Degrees Photography Structure Photographer

Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.”

Mean Together Knowing Fronts Photography Photographer

Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.”

Ifs World Feels Helping Feelings Reality Able Lying Existence Known Darkness Journey Photography Photographer Photograph Surface Symbols Not Alone Evoke Accompany

Author:Wynn Bullock

“Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.”

Lying Waiting Mystery Photography Photographer Familiar Familiar Things

Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.”

Ifs Knows Knowing Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Snapshots Photography By Photographers Black And White Photography Good Photography Leica

Author:Robert Doisneau

“I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.”

Thinking Way Should Stills Mankind Disease Photography Sticks Photographer Quarters Cages Hostile Poke Giggle

Author:Sean Penn

“Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.”

Sometimes Photography Hardest Simplest

Author:Neil Leifer

“Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.”

Trying Photography Empty Photographer

Author:Jay Maisel

“Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.”

Photography Photographer Squares

Author:Jay Maisel

“If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.”

Ifs Way Games Elements Photography Surprise Photographer Capture Element Of Surprise Ahead Of The Game

Author:Jay Maisel

“I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.”

Light Fall Force Photography Photographer

Author:Jay Maisel

“As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.”

People Interesting Photography Photographer Patterns Interrupted

Author:Jay Maisel

“Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.”

Want Photography Photographer

Author:Jay Maisel

“I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.”

Believe I Can Air Photography Don't Believe Photographer New Yorkers

Author:Jay Maisel

“Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.”

Silence Photography Photograph Compelling Implications

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.”

Littles Made Stills Seems Enjoy Loses Space Wonder Wonderful Photography Customs Ritual Openness Blur Old Picture

Author:Robert Adams

“Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.”

Firsts Seems Photography Understood Photographer Architecture

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.”

Views Rocks Balance Photography Commitment Labor Investment Absurd Enjoyment Snakes

Author:Robert Adams

“. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.”

Art Vision Shapes Photography Art Is Discovery Harmony Confusion Disparity

Author:Robert Adams

“Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.”

Doe Art Whole Facts Forget Records Creation Prove Photography

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.”

Values Term Photography Host Accessories Gadgets Questionable Great Photography

Author:Ansel Adams

“A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.”

Photography Concepts Photographer Photograph Accidents

Author:Ansel Adams

“The negative is the score, and the print the performance.”

Photography Negative Performances Score Print

Author:Ansel Adams

“A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.”

Moments Photography Concepts Negative Photograph Accidents Exposure

Author:Ansel Adams

“We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."”

Interesting Greater Honor Photography

Author:Ansel Adams

“When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.”

Ideas Interest Particular Photography Cameras Photographer Sake Shooting Dull Carrie There Comes A Time Taking Pictures Novices

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the type of pictures he takes best. What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.”

“The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.”

Feelings Views Behinds Photography Cameras Photograph Point Of View Psychological Reports Pictorial

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.”

Thinking Mean Quality Photography Surprise Appeals Loud Shock Vulgar Intrigue

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.”

“It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.”

Ifs Way Can Do Attention Quality Responsibility Photography Surprise Photographer Command

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration and not for imitation. These works should be something to be built upon, not to be repeated.”

Should Art Important Facts Inspiration Today Past Used Photography Art Is Built Photographer Imitation Outstanding

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.”

“It is the end result that counts.”

Ends Results Photography End Results

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.”

Two Decision Levels Seeing Style Photography Shots Photographer Determine Chosen Printed Personal Style

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.”

People Emotion Quality Vision Photography Surprise Photograph Unexpected Personal Vision

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.”

Thinking Values Individual Force Subjects Particular Expression Photography Photographer Viewers Intrigue Individual Expression

Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.”

World Photography Photographer Technique Inability Street Photography

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“What I did, anybody can do.”

Can Do Photography Photographer

Author:Weegee

“The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.”

Real Country Might Mother Values Father Boys Failing Possibility Taught Return Photography Photograph Uniforms Consolation Departure Real Value

Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

“A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.”

Thinking Wells Looks Littles Made Reason Beautiful Interest Strange Photography Being True Copies Incomplete Vases

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”

Way May Different Pain Remember Forget Records Painting Photography Opposites Photograph Painter Different Things Capturing A Moment Photography

Author:John Berger

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...”

Feels Expression Photography Photographer Photograph Inspirational Photography Great Photography Landscape Photography Film Photography Photography And Film Photography Love

Author:Ansel Adams

“If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.”

Ifs Want Mean Running Water Rocks Photography Photograph Life Means

Author:Minor White

“The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.”

Knows Feels Order Projects Photography Photographer Identifying

Author:Minor White

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