Lysaker Photography Quotes

This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur ... ~ David Hurn

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera ~ Sebastiao Salgado

The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it. ~ Christian Metz

I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it. ~ Jay Maisel

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen. ~ Jay Maisel

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ... ~ Freeman Patterson

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't. ~ Nobuyoshi Araki

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone. ~ Hedi Slimane

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. ~ Edward Weston

The beauty of Photography is not in what you see, its art lies in your dreams. ~ Biju Karakkonam, Nature And Wildlife Photographer

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world. ~ Lee Friedlander

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already. ~ Helmut Newton

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love. ~ Albert Hammond, Jr.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet. ~ Rene Burri

For me photography had an immediacy ... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography. ~ Jerome Liebling

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves. ~ Joyce Tenneson

Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all. ~ Zana Briski

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. ~ Berenice Abbott

Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging ... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality. ~ Larry Sultan

At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art. ~ Ferran Adria

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... ~ John Szarkowski

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work ~ Betty Poluk

I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to. For many years I carried cameras wherever I went. Photograph whatever I saw that was of interest. In the last years, I've only used cameras to explore thematic ideas which presented themselves first. And then bring out the cameras to try to explore that idea. ~ Leonard Nimoy

There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I ~ Jamel Shabazz

The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable. ~ Sergio Leone

A career in photography is a journey without a destination. ~ Joe McNally

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely, but the moment someone decides to release the shutter, it is an editorial statement. ~ John Filo

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me. ~ Sigmar Polke