Stoecklein Photography Quotes

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­ ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. ~ Ansel Adams

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me. ~ James Nachtwey

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. ~ Susan Sontag

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. ~ Ansel Adams

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something. ~ Nick Zinner

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Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment. ~ John Szarkowski

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful! ~ Walter Benjamin

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident. ~ Taryn Simon

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art. ~ Sandy Skoglund

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography - that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms. ~ Joel Meyerowitz

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour. ~ Lewis Carroll

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ~ John Berger

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.) ~ Federico Fellini

Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. ~ Douglas Rushkoff

In the years that I could not see him, I came to know my father through the medium of photography. My perceptions of him were forged on black-and-white squares that stole an instant out of history and immortalized it between the pages of a family album. When I summoned up the image of the man, it came to me frozen, black-bordered, flat. He stood pale above the creases of his uniform, framed in the foamy wake of some ship, drops of sunlight caught in the buttons on his jacket. He winked at me from the liberty ports of countless exotic places. In an atrocious hand he scrawled stilted, affectionate words to the stranger that bore his name and his features, telling of adventures far away, misbehavings under suns hotter than that which shone over the Greater German Reich. ~ Miles Watson

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted. ~ Peter Diamandis

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography. ~ John Waters

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. ~ Ansel Adams

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility. ~ Janet Malcolm

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial ... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art. ~ Clement Greenberg

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

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information. ~ Don McCullin

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

I can't always reach the image in my mind ... almost never, in fact ... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it. ~ Chuck Close

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine ... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect. ~ Chuck Close

Let us ... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities. ~ Albert Renger-Patzsch

People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it. ~ Juan Enriquez

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art. ~ Chuck Close

Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned. ~ Edwin Land

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.

I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously. ~ Emmet Gowin