Quotations on photography

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

(Subhash)

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

(Goethe)

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

(Wynn Bullock)

Subhash: „Positioning #711” (Cyanotype)

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

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

(André Kertész)

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

(Susan Sontag)

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

(Wynn Bullock)

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

(Heinrich Kühn)

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

(Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi)

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

(Piero Golia)

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

(Andreas Feininger)

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

(Alfred Stieglitz)

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

(Beaumont Newhall)

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

(Dschuang Dsï)

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

(Dorothea Lange)

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

(Unknown)

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

(Barnett Newman)

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

(Rebecca Solnit)

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

(Ernst Haas)

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

(Wynn Bullock)

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

(Marc Riboud)

Talent is more important than technology.

(Andreas Feininger)

I photograph to see what things look like photographed.

(Garry Winogrand)

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a see of mystery.

(Chet Raymo)

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

(Karen Divine)

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

(Anaïs Nin)

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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