David Douglas Duncan Quotes

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

I love photography myself.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

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

Photographing a cake can be art.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.