To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.
A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Beauty can be seen in all things.
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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