Quotes About Visual

How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

I think TV is a fantastic medium right now because of what you can do visually. It's phenomenal, and it's just getting better and better, but in a way, there's no beating the personal image you can create in your head, with those personal aspects, which you can only get from reading or radio dramas.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

To photograph is to confer importance.

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

The camera photographs what's there.

When you collect photographs, you're sort of at the mercy of the gods.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.