Photograph Quotations | Page 2

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.

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.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.