Nickens Photography Quotes

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity. ~ Eugene Richards

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards. ~ Charles Sheeler

Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn't know how to lie. ~ Janet Malcolm

Their intensive 1 -day nature photography instructional seminars. Both love to teach others how to make their own fine photographs. ~ Anonymous

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful. ~ Kevin Systrom

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony. ~ Frank Horvat

I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force. ~ Jay Maisel

I have learned that the camera is, as is often said, a powerful weapon. And the wielder of that weapon can be perceived as dominating and threatening, even if that is not his or her intent. ~ Waswo X. Waswo

I approached photography the only way that I knew how to approach anything: as a job. I would get up, photograph all morning, stop and have lunch, and then, photograph all afternoon. I didn't think that I had to wait for some inspiration. ~ Thomas Roma

You don't study photography, you do it ~ Elliott Erwitt

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it. ~ Elliott Erwitt

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared. ~ Keith Carter

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller) ~ William Eggleston

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. ~ Robert Genn

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole. ~ Robert Adams

...at the heart of every image is a feeling. - Everett Houser Photography ~ Everett Houser

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic. ~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. ~ Cleo Moore

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do. ~ Drew Barrymore

Everything looks worse in black and white. ~ Paul Simon

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. ~ James Whistler

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? ~ Ernst Haas

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but ... my portrait is a culmination of elements ... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot. ~ Jamie Wyeth

The best zoom lens is your legs. ~ Ernst Haas

She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt of Jamestown and the sound of the foghorns over the water and the gulls and every night that was the breath of the day before. ~ Tiger Lewis

All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model. ~ Jeanloup Sieff

I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose. ~ Diane Arbus

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing. ~ Chuck Close

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real. ~ Rosalind E. Krauss

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen. ~ Harry Callahan

All photography is propaganda. ~ Martin Parr

Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better. ~ Andreas Feininger

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills ... all apart from cooking. ~ Heston Blumenthal

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph. ~ Bill Jay

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it. ~ Steven Wright

That, really, was Sandy's choice: Tommy's naked ass or Steven Spielberg's director of photography. ~ Greg Sestero

Seeing lesbian photography is just the tip of my radicalized clitoris. I have modeled for, commissioned, published, and fought for these pictures, and answered threats against them. I've seen the feminist movement bring these pictures to life, and I've seen that same movement try to suppress the liberating results. ~ Susie Bright

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world. ~ Marc Riboud

As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love. ~ Alfred Stieglitz