“I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.” ThinkingSometimesSpiritualPhotographySensibilityMystical Author:Keith Carter
“Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.” WorldEyeSpiritualPhotographyDustCoveredGrime Author:Andre Bazin
“Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.” ShowsLightSpiritualDarknessPhotographyConsidering Author:Kevin Russo
“For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was a deep reverence for the world through which they passed. Photographers share something with these artists. We seek only to see and to describe with our own voices, and, though we are seldom heard as soloists, we cannot photograph the world in any other way.” WorldWayHelpingSpiritualArtistVoiceImaginationHeardShareShapesPhotographyPhotographerPhotographCompanionReverenceEquipment Author:Sam Abell
“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.” PeopleWorldWellsSelfRealitySpiritualDifficultRealizingAwarenessSourcePhotographyReflectionDirectMajorityPhotographFactualSpiritual Awareness Author:Ansel Adams
“For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.” HumansStillsSpiritualUniverseFiguresCreationEmotionalBalancePhotographyConnectionsEssenceHarmonyResponsePhotographerPhotographDenyOnenessImpulseRealmsReachingMotivatedYearningCompellingHuman ExperienceStill LifeCulminationEmotional ResponseSpiritual ConnectionPoetry And MusicBalance And Harmony Author:Ruth Bernhard