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Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Oct 2, 2025
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.
Beauty can be seen in all things.
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...
The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.