Galen Rowell Quotes

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

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

There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

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.

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.

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

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

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.