Photograph Quotes - Page 35

• When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Thinking, Painting

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 11, 2015

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• As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They are totally painting (whatever that may mean). On the other hand, they are so like the photograph that the thing that distinguished the photograph from all other pictures remains intact.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Hands

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• Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Giving, Feelings

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter (2000). “Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977”, ABRAMS

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• ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Thinking, Hands

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mind, Landscape

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Mar 19, 2015

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• And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white photographs), with a compressed summation that precludes any possible continuation. And so it is a leave-taking from thoughts and feelings of my own on a very basic level. Not that this is a deliberate act, of course; it is a quasi-automatic sequence of disintegration and reformation which I can perceive, as always, only in retrospect.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Strong, Black And White

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only be depicted. But photographs, private ones and others, keep appearing that fascinate me so much that I want to paint them. And sometimes the real meaning these images have for me only becomes apparent later.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Want

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• I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

  Helena Christensen

  Fascinated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

  Christian Lacroix

  Years, Looks, Realizing

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• What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

  Ron Reagan

  Mean, Naked, Like You

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• What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

  Eve Arnold

  People, Giving, Leica

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• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  Eve Arnold

  Moving, Skills, Musician

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.16, A&C Black

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• I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

  Nigel Barker

  People, Different, Kind

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• Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Decision, Style

  Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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• Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Britain, Northern Ireland, Ireland

  "Jeremy Hardy: Caustic comic". news.bbc.co.uk. April 5, 2002.

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• ... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Way, Photographer, Finest

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• Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.

  Kobo Abe

  Suicide, People, Twenties

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• With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Block, Order

  "On The Nature of Photographs February 20th, 2015". Interview with Luc Sante, aperture.org. February 20, 2015.

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• Yet another spunky li'l NASA robot lands and begins transmitting back photographs of rocks that appear virtually identical to the rock photos beamed back by all the other spunky li'l NASA robots, thus confirming suspicions that the universe has a LOT of rocks in it.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Science, Rocks

  Dave Barry (2007). “Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)”, p.108, Penguin

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• I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.

  Keith Shackleton

  Photography, Reality, Pitfalls

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• I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.

  Freeman Patterson

  Humans, Human Beings

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• The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Eye, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Stories, Shooting

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• I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Vision, Trying, Form

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• What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, People

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