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“Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.”

Today Spirit Painting Photography Bores

Author:Edward Weston

“I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.”

Spirit Photography Photographer Inviting

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“[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.”

Way Years Real Country Whole Shows Feelings Film Spirit Emotion Behinds Forever Photography Empty Landscape Memorable Geography Stay With Me Good Photography Stay With Me Forever

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.”

World Heart States Spirit Born Space Vision Photography Substance Gentle Offering

Author:Paul Caponigro

“In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.”

World Years Wells Heart States Film Spirit Born Space Vision Quiet Paper Photography Solutions Substance Gentle Realms Chemicals Offering I Have Learned Papers Shutters

Author:Paul Caponigro

“I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.”

Thinking Spirit Serious Photography Infinite Photograph Woe Mischief

Book:Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

Source: Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

“No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.”

Long Stills Matter Enough Film Spirit Photography Photographer Chosen Film Photography

Author:Minor White

“I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.”

Ifs Thinking Two Faces Spirit Party Morning Tree Photography Ghost Vengeance Invitations Riders Ornaments Romania Christmas Party Ghost Rider

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.”

World Years Feelings Seems Running Spirit Fighting Passion Names Born Struggle Greater Photography Mad These Days Forty Materialism My Passion Riot

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”

Art Hands Spirit Creative Photography Architecture Holding Hands

Book:Altars

Source: Altars

“I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.”

Said Spirit Feet Photography

Author:Mathew Brady

“My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.”

Giving Light Form Spirit Goal Magic Photography Mass Shadow Ideals Photographer Clarity Proportion Quests Emphasis Simplify Dominating Light And Shadow

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.”

Thinking Giving Made Spirit Class Forever Particular Photography Photographer Photograph Damn Don't Give A Damn Always And Forever I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Minor White

“"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."”

Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Honest Approach Photography Cameras Photographer Mediums Communion Inquiry Swagger

Book:The daybooks of Edward Weston

Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston

“Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.”

Trying Whole Body Might Able Spirit Universe Teach Photography Flow Constant Edges Discovering Our Relationship Exploring Spirit Of Life

Author:Ruth Bernhard