Chris Marker Quotes

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

A camera gives you a purpose.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.