Quotes by Photography If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression. Andre Kertesz photography writing beautiful Photography is my only language. Andre Kertesz language photography photographer Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself. Andre Kertesz moments photography photographer When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh. Andrea Modica excitement photography flesh I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now. Andrea Modica circles queens photography A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture. Andreas Feininger photography perfect world As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers. Andreas Feininger photography photographer wish Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he wishes to do, the better the chances are that he will do it. Andreas Feininger photography successful ideas Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art. Andreas Feininger photography successful art The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment. Andreas Feininger eye photography disappointment No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics. Andreas Feininger understanding photography photographer Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better. Andreas Feininger cameras eye photography Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest. Andreas Feininger leica photography thinking Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when. Andreas Feininger know-how photography photographer Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor. Andreas Feininger color light photography Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record. Andreas Feininger cameras photography sight Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. Andreas Feininger subjects photography photographer With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big. Andreas Feininger photography long hands What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience. Andreas Feininger what-matters honesty photography It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for the picture. The wrong light, the wrong background, time and so on. Just don't do it, not matter how beautiful the subject is. Andreas Feininger photography beautiful thinking «4567891011121314»