Eudora Welty Quotes

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

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

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

When I’m photographing I see life.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

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

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

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

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

Photography helps people to see.

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.