E. B. White Quotes

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

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

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

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.