Photographer Quotes

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
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