Jeff Nichols Quotes

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.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

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.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

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

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.

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

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

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.

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.

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.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.

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

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

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

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

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