Freezing Quote by James Elkins

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

“To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth.…

— Pete Dexter

Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

— Ansel Adams

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

— Wim Wenders

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to…

— Don McCullin

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at…

— David Hockney

Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely…

— Andrea Modica

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing…

— Harold Feinstein

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I…

— William S. Burroughs

Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

— Norwood Russell Hanson

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

— Helen Keller

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

— Burton Silverman