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Photography Quotes by Wynn Bullock
- At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt…
- I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning…
- What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan…
- The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.…
- A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what…
- The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace…
- Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek…
- What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality…
- As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things…
- I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
- I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and…
- Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front…
- In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling…
- Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
- A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things…
- As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of…
- For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
- I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding…
More Photography Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams