Photography Quotes

"Nobody takes a picture of something that they want to forget."




"The images are never precise, but diffuse. The choice of a certain angle, the expectation of the moment when this world appears pitiful and tender takes away from my winks any objective value."




"I believe hard that there is no standard truth, but that the profile of this truth can be changed infinitely if one dares to leave comfortable observation posts." 





"The quality of a photographer must be the hope of the miracle against all logic, a kind of faith in luck." Anything can happen at the corner of a street. I wait for actors to come to play I do not know what. "




"For it is clear that photography is a practice of bewitchment that seeks to secure possession of the being photographed."





"Photography promotes reality in the dream, it transforms a real object into its own myth, and the objective is the narrow gate through which the elects called to become gods and possessed heroes make their secret entrance into my inner pantheon. "






"An exhibition is a countdown, a disbursement of mistakes, and" in fine, "a balance of any account."






"To photograph is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart."




"To make a portrait is for me the most difficult thing. It is a question mark on someone."





"For me, photography is the spontaneous impulse of perpetual visual attention that captures the instant and its eternity." The drawing, by its graphology, elaborates what our consciousness has grasped of this moment. Immediate action. Drawing is a meditation. "





"Photography is the synthesis of a situation, the moment when everything is assembled, the elusive ideal."






"The photo is nothing but a state of intense idleness and contemplation that leads to a good black and white shot."





"In photography, it is obviously the presence that gives life. The first and strange quality of photography is the presence of the person or thing that is not there."





"Did not the needs of the family worship, in photography, find the exact representation of what amulets and objects realized in an imperfectly symbolic way: the presence of absence?"