photography skill Quotes

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if the photograph was good, it was mostly thanks to the photographer.

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.