Quotations on photography

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

(Unknown)

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

(Wynn Bullock)

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

(Susan Sontag)

Subhash: „Positioning #711” (Cyanotype)

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

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

(Wynn Bullock)

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)

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

(Piero Golia)

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

(Anaïs Nin)

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

(Subhash)

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

(André Kertész)

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)

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

(Marc Riboud)

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

(Barnett Newman)

I photograph to see what things look like photographed.

(Garry Winogrand)

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

(Beaumont Newhall)

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

(Ernst Haas)

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

(Dorothea Lange)

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

(Goethe)

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

(Rebecca Solnit)

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

(Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi)

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

(Dschuang Dsï)

Talent is more important than technology.

(Andreas Feininger)

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)

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

(Jay Maisel)

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.

(Robert Irwin)

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