Robert Rauschenberg Quotes

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

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.

Sometimes, I am lucky because all factors are combined - composition, light, emotion - and sometimes not. Most of the time, I must be patient and wait.

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

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

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

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

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

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

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

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

It's something that I've always been attracted to, that idea of letting everything happen in a single frame.

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

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

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 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 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.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.