Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

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

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

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

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.

When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

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.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

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

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.