Henry Mancini Quotes

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it, and don't let anyone tell you not to.

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

I just like pictures and visuals and stuff.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

I like it because its ugly

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.

The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.