I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears.… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature. — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share
Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem. The possibility… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
