creative capture Quotes

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.

I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that and get that down in some way. This is - this is a type of familiarity but a type of radical difference at the same time.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

If someone is wearing something terrific, that's what I want to photograph.

I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?