Quotes About Art

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop

score, and the print the performance

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

A photograph is usually looked at — seldom looked into.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Por eso necesitamos adquirir otra vez la vitalidad y apertura del niño. No podemos permanecer infantiles, porque entonces no avanzaríamos en el proceso de nuestro desarrollo. El arte de vivir consiste por una parte en hacernos progresivamente más maduros y más adultos, pero por otra parte en conservar vivo en nosotros el niño interior.

slow it is a slow business to grow a few words to say love