Wynn Bullock Quotes

How did they know?.

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.