Douglas Sirk Quotes

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

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

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

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

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

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.

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

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

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

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Photographing a cake can be art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty. I want that in my photography. It isn't always what we conventionally think of as beauty.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

Craftsmanship and logic is key to any movie-making.

I love photography myself.