Paul Outerbridge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Photography #Black And White #Color
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization, and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature. To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Art #Reality #Men
Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Mind #Phrases #Coins
[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Appreciation #Giving #Good Man
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Photography #Art #Eye
The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Mind #Trying #Facts
Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become... .
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Flower #Civilization #People
If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.
-- Paul Outerbridge

#Sex #Population #Body

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

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