Alessandro Michele Quotes

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

All my work is about how it feels to look.

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.

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.