Reed Morano Quotes

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

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

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

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.

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.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

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

I love photography myself.

I'm aware of other artists, but what I'm really most interested in is viewing individual pictures. I like dramatic pictures.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

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.

For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

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

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.