Orson Welles Quotes

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

Photography helps people to see.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.

You see the world much better through a camera.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.