Chris Jordan Quotes

Form follows beauty.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

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

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

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

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

I just like pictures and visuals and stuff.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

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

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.