How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing? — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. — John Paul Caponigro Color Copy Share Image
Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are. — John Paul Caponigro Computer Copy Share Image
Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?' — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking. — John Paul Caponigro Invitations Copy Share Image
It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing? — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows. — John Paul Caponigro Awareness Copy Share Image
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those… — John Paul Caponigro Art Copy Share Image
We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved… — John Paul Caponigro Art Copy Share Image
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication -… — John Paul Caponigro Approach Copy Share Image
The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys… — John Paul Caponigro Art Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Artist Copy Share Image
All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard… — John Paul Caponigro Culture Copy Share Image
The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing. — John Paul Caponigro Communication Copy Share Image
It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing. — John Paul Caponigro Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message. — John Paul Caponigro Art Copy Share Image
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have. — John Paul Caponigro Defer Copy Share Image
