Verge Quotes by Stephen Shore

I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer…

— Stephen Shore

I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's…

— Stephen Shore

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every…

— Stephen Shore

A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of…

— Stephen Shore

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness…

— Stephen Shore

I have to be reminded, “’It’s your son’s birthday party. Bring a camera.’ And then, when I’m there, ‘Take a picture,’ because it doesn’t…

— Stephen Shore

I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems…

— Stephen Shore

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

— Stephen Shore

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

— Stephen Shore

The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday…

— Stephen Shore

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

— Stephen Shore