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Quotes about photography
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I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. (Bierce Ambrose)
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. (Bierce Ambrose)
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. (Bierce Ambrose)
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 ordinary. (Bierce Ambrose)
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The photographic image... is a message without a code. (Bierce Ambrose)
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature. (Bierce Ambrose)
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era. (Bierce Ambrose)
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. (Bierce Ambrose)
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. (Bierce Ambrose)
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. (Bierce Ambrose)
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. (Bierce Ambrose)
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. (Bierce Ambrose)
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself. (Bierce Ambrose)
At least the box is full of something useful. [On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran] (Bierce Ambrose)
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again. (Bierce Ambrose)
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. (Bierce Ambrose)
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. (Bierce Ambrose)
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. (Bierce Ambrose)
Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is. (Bierce Ambrose)
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. (Bierce Ambrose)
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. (Bierce Ambrose)
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. (Bierce Ambrose)
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. (Bierce Ambrose)
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. (Bierce Ambrose)
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. (Bierce Ambrose)
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