Photograph Quote by Bill Jay Download Open image “Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.” — Bill Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photograph Photographer Photography Unreality Visible
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at. — Ruth Orkin Copy Share Image
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to. — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two. — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
