A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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.
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.
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