David Hockney
[Artist, b. 1937, Bradford, England, lives in Bridlington, Yorkshire; London; and Los Angeles.]
I’ve always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.
George Davison
[Photographer, b. 1854, Lowestoft, England, d. 1930, Antibes, France.]
...given a subject with really strong poetic possibilities in it, sharpness and detail will go a long way to render it commonplace.
(1889)
Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances... a tiny relationship—either a harmony or a disharmony—that creates a picture.
Wim Wenders
[Artist and filmmaker, b. 1945, Düsseldorf, lives in Berlin.]
An image that is unseen can’t sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.
Phil Stern
[Photographer, b. 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 2014, Los Angeles.]
I’m always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he’s serious, is. He ain’t ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.
