Roosh Photography Quotes

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days ... ~ Jack Kerouac

Notebook. No photographer should be without one! ~ Ansel Adams

Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen. ~ Anton Corbijn

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc. ~ Keith Carter

A picture is a picture, it doesn't matter what camera you use! ~ Chris Geiger

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. ~ Ansel Adams

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share. ~ Rashid Johnson

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later. ~ Helena Christensen

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached. ~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world. ~ Miroslav Tichy

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. ~ Roland Barthes

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge. ~ Uzoma Nnadi

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

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 do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as a vessel for visual material to flow through, to encourage conversation with the viewer. I try to present a catalyst and invite viewers to tell their own stories. ~ Michael Kenna

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens. ~ Franz Kafka

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is. ~ Walker Evans

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ? ~ Francesca Woodman

Light is one of the most important factors in photography. ~ Laura Gilpin

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people. ~ Paula Patton

A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories. ~ Rebecca McNutt

What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?' ~ Jay Maisel

Photographs are just light and time, ~ John Green

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there. ~ Reed Morano

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

One question that especially intrigues me is exactly when humpbacks started coming to Hawaii and why. In artwork and oral histories of ancient Hawaiians there is no record of humpback whales being there, and there is no evidence that humpbacks were there in large numbers in the mid-1800's during the heyday of whaling. The whalers who provisioned in Hawaii in the winter couldn't have overlooked the numbers of whales that are in Hawaii now. We really don't know what happened, but everything points to a recent colonization of humpbacks. (p.162). ~ Charles "Flip" Nicklin

Most of the views are visible to everyone but only those who had passion can see it beyond. ~ Namie Richards

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want ... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented. ~ Peter Doig

I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed. ~ Josef Koudelka

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there. ~ Anthony Farrimond

My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums. ~ Ralph Gibson

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. ~ Susan Meiselas

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. ~ Brassai

Pointing and clicking like Annie Leibovitz ~ Lisi Harrison

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today. ~ Berenice Abbott

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture. ~ Edmundo Desnoes

There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum. ~ Bill Jay

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography. ~ E. J. Hughes

George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending. ~ Christopher Nolan

In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not the classical beauty of symmetry and exact proportions or the fancy of fashion, which is ever-changing with the seasons, but the beauty of a soul, that inner life that reveals itself so seldom, just for an instant, and only if you look closely and learn to see with an open heart. ~ Elizabeth Ross