Digital Photography Quotes

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It’s a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it’s a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

I don’t like explosions. I don’t mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

For example, Michael Mann’s film Collateral – there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

I don’t think that digital photography is romantic yet. It’s not sympathetic the way that film is.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.

I’m not against digital photography. It’s great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that’s fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don’t really want to change, and I still love film.