Inspiring Quotes On Photography, Art and Creativity
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
Diane Smith on Wolfgang Tillmans
“He’s fond of saying although photography always lies about what’s in front of the camera, it never lies about what’s behind it, and he adds that photography is ‘an incredibly true medium in regards to the intentions that are behind the camera’”.
“You could say these are just pictures of clubs, but you know thousands of people take pictures of clubs and none of them look just exactly like mine,” he say. “That’s a proof. I don’t mean it as a proof of how brilliant I am, it’s a proof of how specific photography is, how truly psychological.”
“The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can’t be said in black and white… Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.” – Edward Weston
“Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to
carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me
at that moment.”- Elliott Erwitt
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about
finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it
has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the
way you see them.” – Elliott Erwitt
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take
tomorrow.” – Imogen Cunningham
“If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I
would do something to shake it up.” – Garry Winogrand
“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing
is what it appears to be.” – Duane Michals
“Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” – Duane Michals
“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” – Arnold Newman
“The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects” – Wassily Kandinsky
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgy
“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.” Henri Cartier-Bresson