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SOME THOUGHT PROVOKING QUOTES

 

"The camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity." Henri Cartier Bresson

 

"You find beauty in ordinary things. Do not lose this ability."

Fortune from Chinese restaurant fortune cookie, decades ago.

 

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." Diane Arbus

 

"I really believe that there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them." Diane Arbus

 

"Taking photos is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing oreo cookies." Diane Arbus

 

"To photograph truthfully and effectively, is to see beneath the surface and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things." Ansel Adams

 

"You don't take a photograph. You make it." Ansel Adams

 

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." Ansel Adams

 

"A good photograph is knowing where to stand." Ansel Adams

 

"I believe that the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder" Ansel Adams

 

"At first glance, a photograph can inform us. At second glance, it can reach us." Minor White

 

"One should not only photograph things for what they are, but for what else they are." Minor White

 

"Photography is a language more universal than words." Minor White

 

"All photographs are self-portraits." Minor White

 

". . . Innocence of the eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder." Minor White

 

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

 

"You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain

 

"The eye should learn to listen before it looks." Robert Frank

 

"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it." Irving Penn

 

"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture anymore than typewriter wrote a great novel."

Peter Adams

 

"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality." Alfred Stieglitz

 

"What have you got to say?" Alfred Steiglitz

 

"It is more important to click with people, than to click the shutter." Alfred Eisenstaedt

 

"Photography helps people see." Bernice Abbott

 

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

 

"A portrait is not made in the camera, but on either side of it. " Edward Steichen

 

"Photographers are "lichtaffen" (monkeys drawn to light). Albert Einstein

 

"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual." Edward Weston

 

"I see no reason for photographing the obvious." Edward Weston

 

"I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect." Edward Weston

 

". . . Granted, the eye becomes excited. Why?" Edward Weston

 

"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the law of gravity before taking a walk." Edward Weston

 

"Peace and an hour's time - given these, one creates. Emotional heights are easily attained. Peace and time are not." Edward Weston (My high school yearbook quote)

 

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." R.D. Lang

 

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly, you hardly catch it going." Tennessee Williams

 

"The wish to seize the present and pin it down - - to mount it as it were, like a butterfly in a case is doomed to failure" Frederick Perls

 

"I clearly remember how the viewfinder was clouded over with my tears." Yoshito Matsushinge, August 6, 1945, Hiroshima

 

"The photographer's compass can be nowhere but in his eye." Henri Cartier Bresson

 

"You just have to live and life will give you pictures." Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life." Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

"Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant."

Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Photography is an immediate reaction; drawing is a meditation. Henri Cartier Bresson

 

"Each time I hear Andre Kertesz's shutter click, I feel his heart beating." Henri Cartier Bresson

 

"Photography is nothing - It's life that interests me." Henri Cartier Bresson

 

"Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph." Andre Kertesz

 

"Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is the fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself." Andre` Kertesz

 

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." Henry David Thoreau

 

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." Henry Miller

 

"You can observe a lot just by watching." Yogi Berra

 

"Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye." Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

"The best light for photography is the one that comes from our hearts." Anastase Papoortzis

 

". . . a knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of the camera and pen alike." Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

 

"The photographer does not merely record reality; he creates it, as language creates the meaning of reality by structuring our direct perceptions of existence. This is why photography is, of itself, a true language form and the experience of photography is essentially linguistic in character . . . Through the vision of the camera and the processes of the medium, the photographer gives meaning and structure to his direct perceptions of existence . . ." M. Richard Kirtsel

 

". . . a good photograph must have the element of good design. Everything within the photograph has to be essential. It's never like a painting where you can have it perfect. It shouldn't be absolutely perfect. That would kill it." Leonard Freed

 

"I'm not interested in the rules. Photography is not a sport."

Bill Brant

 

"The earth has music for those who listen." Santayana

 

I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it. Tyler Kent White

 

"Take what you have gathered from coincidence." Bob Dylan

 

"I was taken by a photograph of you." Jackson Browne

 

"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are flowing onto you." Heraclitus (C.A. 540 - 480 B.C.)

 

"In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you take, but how many moments took your breath away!

Shing Xiong

 

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye . . . it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." Edvard Munch

 

"Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect." Zoey Sayward

 

"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself." Berenice Abbott

 

"When we look with a total abandonment of ourselves, we know what is the beauty. When we stop to look really . . . . we are in a state of love for everything." Krishnamurti

 

"Being an Artist means never looking away." Akira Kurosawa

 

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle." Walt Whitman

 

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." Vincent VanGogh

 

"Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second." Lewis Carroll (author and photographer)

 

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." Pissaro

 

"If you don't live it, it ain't gonna come out of your horn." Charlie Parker

 

"What use is having a great depth of field if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?" W. Eugene Smith

 

"I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil." W. Eugene Smith

 

"If one does not lie back and sum up and say to the moment, this very moment, stay- you are so fair, what will be one's gain, dying? No: stay this moment. No one ever says that enough." Virginia Wolf

 

"Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality." Mary Ellen Mark

 

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." Charlie Chaplin

 

"But who hath fancies pleased with fruits of happy sight, Let here his eyes be raised on nature's sweetest light!" Sir Philip Sidney

 

"It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them" Walt Whitman

 

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs!" Salvador Dali

 

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michaelangelo

 

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." Michalangelo

 

“If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.”

Captain Jack Sparrow

 

"I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera." Saul Leiter

 

"Life interferes with art." Tina Modotti

 

THANK YOU,

 

ART BRAITMAN