"The photographer has almost as much control over……" — Andreas Feininger
"The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition."
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22 Quotes by Andreas Feininger
Andreas Feininger has 22 quotes on this site.
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It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything…
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Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.
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No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
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What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if…
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The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points…
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A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.
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The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different…
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Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
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As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs…
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Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic.…
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Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a…
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Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
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More Composition Quotes
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult…
— Nick Clegg
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together.…
— Tadao Ando
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To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
— Christopher Tunnard
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,…
— Joseph Addison
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of…
— Julia Cameron
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to…
— Maurice Ravel
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
— Isaac Newton
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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