You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
A roll of film costs $6.00 – a roll of history is priceless.
You can give everything to photography but photography will give you only 1 thing – happiness.
Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.
The only ‘bad light’ is the absence of light altogether.
Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.
A photographer strives to be fully aware of every moment, and to be one with all others every moment.
A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.
Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.
When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.
Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.
When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.
A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.
Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.
I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it.
You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.
If you’re photographing in color you show the color of their clothes – if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.
A photograph is portrait painted by the sun.
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style.
Amateurs worry about equipment, Professionals worry about time, Masters worry about light.
I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.
There’s a photograph everywhere and it’s the photographer’s job to find it.
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
When photography was invented artists thought that it would bring ruin to art but it is shown that photography has been an ally of art, an educator of taste more powerful than a hundred academies of Design would have been…
The whole question of success and failure [in photography] resolves itself into an investigation of the capacities of the machine and well may we be satisfied with the rich gifts it bestows, without straining it into a competition with art. For everything for which art, so-called, has hitherto been the means but no the end, photography is the allotted agent – for all that requires mere manual correctness, and mere manual slavery, without any employment of the artistic feeling, she is the proper and therefore the perfect medium. She is made for the present age in which the desire for art resides in a small minority, but the craving, or rather necessity for cheap, prompt, and correct facts in the public at large. Photography is the purveyor of such knowledge to the world. She is sworn witness of everything presented to her view.
