Quotations on photography

Light to me is maybe the most profund truth of the universe.

(Wynn Bullock)

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

(Beaumont Newhall)

When I try to stick with a concept or preconceived idea it becomes rigid and forced.

(Karen Divine)

Subhash: „Positioning #711” (Cyanotype)

Subhash: „Positioning #711” (Cyanotype); see also here

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a see of mystery.

(Chet Raymo)

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

(Andreas Feininger)

An artist is a choreographer of reality, constantly shifting bounderies…

(Piero Golia)

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

(André Kertész)

The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant…

(Dorothea Lange)

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

(Marc Riboud)

Leave the door open for the unknown,[…] That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,[…]

(Rebecca Solnit)

The bells and stones have voices but, unless they are struck, they will not sound.

(Dschuang Dsï)

Aesthetics is for the artists as ornithology is for the birds.

(Barnett Newman)

I am not interested in shooting new things— I am interested to see things new.

(Ernst Haas)

You don't take a picture. You ask quietly and humbly to borrow it.

(Unknown)

The mechanical device has no other meaning for the photographer as perhaps the brush for the painter.

(Heinrich Kühn)

There is no such thing as progress or improvement in art. There is art or no art. There is nothing inbetween.

(Alfred Stieglitz)

I photograph to see what things look like photographed.

(Garry Winogrand)

If you dont’t feel it, you won’t get it…

(Goethe)

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things…

(Wynn Bullock)

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

(Anaïs Nin)

All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

(Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi)

Talent is more important than technology.

(Andreas Feininger)

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

(Susan Sontag)

Photography is the only language that can be misunderstood all around the world.

(Subhash)

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

(Wynn Bullock)

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.

(Robert Irwin)

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

(Jay Maisel)

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