Helmut Gernsheim famous quotes

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being
-- Helmut Gernsheim

#Art #Men #Ideas

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.
-- Helmut Gernsheim

#Photography #Men #Culture

The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention.
-- Helmut Gernsheim

#Photography #Lying #Creative

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. Independent of political influence - where people are free - it reflects truthfully life and events, allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others, and illuminates political and social conditions. We become the eye-witnesses of the humanity and inhumanity of mankind . . .
-- Helmut Gernsheim

#Photography #Independent #Eye

Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over... At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture will prove it to all the world. (On his discovery of the first photograph, made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.)
-- Helmut Gernsheim

#Photography #Discovery #Long

I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.
-- Helmut Gernsheim

#Strong #Moving #Thinking

Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history... It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit of using the camera obscura to try to fix its image permanently.
-- Helmut Gernsheim

#Photography #Artist #Trying

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

No one man is superior to the game.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’