188 quotes found
“Mediante la fotografa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicin fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusin de mi pasado.”
“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? ”
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, a...”
“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”
“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise dont belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
“The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can s...”
“It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then...”
“All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.”
“Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can't do that. I just-- Maybe I ha...”
“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ”
“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”
“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
“I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where Ive never been.”
“Dont pack up your camera until youve left the location.”
“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more ...”
