“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” MomentsArtistEasyDifficultSimpleEmotionFocusTalentPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSurfaceMediumsFixedNativeContradictionConceptionInstructionRecallsBlankFormidableShutters Author:Edward Steichen
“[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.” WayYearsRealCountryWholeShowsFeelingsFilmSpiritEmotionBehindsForeverPhotographyEmptyLandscapeMemorableGeographyStay With MeGood PhotographyStay With Me Forever Author:Martin Scorsese
“[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.” IfsMindStatesWould BeEyeEmotionGraceSeeingPhotographySurpriseAppearanceSurprise MeForeseen Author:Sarah Moon
“I have been heavily criticized in the past at magazines for my black-and-white photography and the aggressive punch - I prefer to call it strong emotion - to the pictures. When everything is virtually disposable I feel these pictures really stand out.” PastStrongEmotionPhotographyAggressiveStanding Out Author:Max Vadukul
“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” InspirationalEnergyWishEmotionLandPhotographyPhotographerMagnificenceInspirational Photography Author:Annie Leibovitz
“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” MomentsFactsEmotionOpinionPhotographyPhotographerPhotographTransformedAccuratePortraitsPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyPhoto ShootsDigital PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And Film Author:Richard Avedon
“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.” HumansArtFormEmotionCreativityColorPhotographyTragedyEcstasyNot InterestedDoomHuman Emotions Author:Mark Rothko
“A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.” ProblemDealsGriefEmotionCryPhotographyPhotographAppearanceEcstasyEcstatic Author:Duane Michals
“The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.” MomentsFactsEmotionOpinionPhotographyPhotographerPhotographTransformedPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyPhoto ShootsDigital PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And Film Author:Richard Avedon
“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good” FeelsEmotionMistakeJudgmentPhotographyPhotographerPhotographStreet Photography Author:Garry Winogrand
“It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.” PeopleEmotionQualityVisionPhotographySurprisePhotographUnexpectedPersonal Vision Author:Alexey Brodovitch