Photography And Film Quotes

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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.

I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

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.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

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.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

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.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

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.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.