Eudora Welty Quotes

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.