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Photography Quotes
"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."
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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
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