“Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.” FirstsJoyEasyForgetPhotographyCraftsSettlingWorking It Author:David Burnett
“If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.” IfsBelieveStoriesJobsActorsForgetAudienceSeeingHugeInvolvedDirectorsPhotographyWindowScreensDevicesMake Believe Author:Frank Capra
“I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.” ForgetOne DayPhotographyRevengeInnocence Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.” DoneSeemsEasyForgetSubjectsCreationPossibilityPersonalityPhotographyAspectInfinitePhotographMarvelousAffirmation Author:Gisele Freund
“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.” InspirationalForgetLike YouPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographHidingForget YouPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyCamera And Photography Author:Annie Leibovitz
“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.” Has BeensGodOrderMemoriesForgetRecordsPhotographyCamerasBurdenCynicalSurveys Book:About Looking Source: About Looking
“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.” NamesForgetVisionSeeingPhotographyAwe Author:Paul Valery
“I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)” BelieveLastsRememberOrderMemoriesForgetSecurityPhotographyGood ThingsPhotographAriseObsessionPessimismFadesFlawedUnspokenHunchesFalse Sense Of Security Author:Michelle Richmond
“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.” DoeArtWholeFactsForgetRecordsCreationProvePhotography Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews
“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.” WayMayDifferentPainRememberForgetRecordsPaintingPhotographyOppositesPhotographPainterDifferent ThingsCapturing A Moment Photography Author:John Berger