If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.
...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.
Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.
I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.
Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.
If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.
If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.
Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up.
I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.
'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.
If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
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