''If you don't look at the details, how can you expect to see the whole picture?''
I'm not shure about a lot of things, that's why experimenting is exiting.
It's just trying to find out what happens and what the result will be like.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Doing what you already know is boring and failure can teach as much as succes.
Or more.
"There are no answers in what I do, only questions"
"The image is free"
"Photographs are the most simple way to meet the other reality."
"All photos are accurate.
None of them is the truth."
Richard Avedon
"If your photographs aren't good enough,
you're not close enough."
Robert Capa
"People say photographs don't lie,
mine do."
David LaChapelle
"I am not interested in rules or conventions.
Photography is not a sport."
Bill Brandt
"There is only you and your camera.
The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see iswhat we are."
Ernst Haas
Of course, there will always be those who look only attechnique, who ask ‘how’,
while others of a more curiousnature will ask ‘why’
Man Ray
'I'm haunted by the idea that my
photography was all a big mistake'
Jeff Wall
"Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and
imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Peter Lindbergh
"The single most important component
of a camera is the twelve inches behind it."
Ansel Adams
"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."
Yousuf Karsh
"Photographs are ment to represent something you don't see"
Emmet Gowin
"I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera."
Saul Leiter
"I don’t trust words. I trust pictures."
Gilles Peress
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus
"The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words."
Elliott Erwitt
"Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph."
Matt Hardy
"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."
Yousuf Karsh
"The eye should learn to listen before it looks."
Robert Frank