James Ivory Quotes

I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according to the golden triangle rule of photography composition.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

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.

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

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

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

If your pictures are not good enough, it’s because you are not close enough.

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.

In the past, there were many times when I thought, 'This photo doesn't look good with a low angle, or this part bothers me.'

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

My close-up was magnificent!