Arnold Newman Quotes

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

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.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

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

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

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

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

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.