Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y. Tupac Shakur
Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y.
I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life. Andre Kertesz
I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. Robert Doisneau
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them. Gene McSweeney
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments. Michael Lesy
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. Henri Cartier Bresson
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. Jacques henri Lartigue
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.' Ansel Adams
'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. Henri Cartier bresson
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture. William Albert Allard
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need. Ken Rockwell
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Ansel Adams
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is... Berenice Abbott
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want. Ken Rockwell
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. Henri Cartier bresson
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. Paul Strand
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
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