Paul Caponigro

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar,…

— Paul Caponigro

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…

— Paul Caponigro

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music,…

— Paul Caponigro

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself…

— Paul Caponigro

As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level…

— Paul Caponigro

The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The…

— Paul Caponigro

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

— Paul Caponigro

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

— Paul Caponigro

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

— Paul Caponigro

Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem.…

— Paul Caponigro

Seek freedom within action.

— Paul Caponigro

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography…

— Paul Caponigro

Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those…

— Paul Caponigro

I use my music to tune myself.

— Paul Caponigro

I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and…

— Paul Caponigro

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

— Paul Caponigro

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this…

— Paul Caponigro

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

— Paul Caponigro

If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has…

— Paul Caponigro

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of…

— Paul Caponigro

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up,…

— Paul Caponigro

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then…

— Paul Caponigro

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who…

— Paul Caponigro

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for…

— Paul Caponigro