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.
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.
A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.
Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.
Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?
Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.
But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.
I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .
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