Quotes

Samuel Beckett

What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no art. It only means that there will be a new form and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try and say that the chaos is really something else…. To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Robert Henri

I am interested in art as a means of living a life, not as a means of making a living.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it.

Yousf Karsh

Look and think before the shutter. The heatt and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Robert Rauscheberg

It’s when you’ve found out how to do certain things that it’s time to stop doing them, because what’s missing is that you’re not including the risk.

Jay Maisel

The more I shoot the luckier I get.
If you are shooting in colour, the colour which is the form, can become the content.
If you find the stage the players will come.
It isn’t a matter of how much ground you cover, it is what you see. If you walk too fast you don’t see.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The only joy in photography is geometry. All the rest is sentiment.

The photographer's task is not to prove anything connected to a human event. We are not progagandist; we are witnesses of the transitory.

Dorothea Lange

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
I believe what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
The good photography is not the object, the consequence of the photograph are the objects…

Ernst Hall

We don’t take pictures, we are taken by them.

Claude Monet

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Antony Barboza

When I do a series I do not change my camera or lens.
You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

Ansel Adams

You don’t make a photograph just with your 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.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Edward Burtynsky

In my heart, I feel that as artists we can hold a mirror up to society and help reflect upon exactly what we are doing and what type of world we are creating.
We come from the nature and we have to understand what it is, because we are connected to it and we are part of it. (…) And if we destroy nature we destroy ourselves
The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans –  whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on its way to nine billion members – manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.

Henri Cartier Bresson

It is an illusion that photos are made with a camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significants of an event.
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.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

Robin Williams

You are only given a little spark of madness and if you loose that you are done.

Robert Capa

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
If you call yourself an artist, you won’t get anything published. Call yourself a photojournalist, and then you can do whatever you want.

Letter by Ansel Adams

Letter by Ansel Adams
June 19, 1937
Dear Cedric,
A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it made me see many things that were drifting around inside of me; things that related to those who are loved and those who are real friends.
For the first time, I know what love is; what friends are; and what art should be.
Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Children are not only of flesh and blood — children may be ideas, thoughts, emotions. The person of the one who is loved is a form composed of a myriad mirrors reflecting and illuminating the powers and thoughts and the emotions that are within you, and flashing another kind of light from within. No words or deeds may encompass it.
Friendship is another form of love — more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting and acceptance of things like thunderclouds and grass and the clean granite of reality.
Art is both love and friendship and understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of Things, it is more than kindness which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the interrelations of these.
I wish the thundercloud had moved up over Tahoe and let loose on you; I could wish you nothing finer.
Ansel

Alfred Stieglitz

Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings… You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today.

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