To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
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