Lisette Model famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.
-- Lisette Model

#Photography #Art #Hardest
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
-- Lisette Model

#Photography #Cameras #Photograph
I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I donâ€™t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.
-- Lisette Model

#Answers #Lessons #Want
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
-- Lisette Model

#Routine #Invisible #Conventions
It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.
-- Lisette Model

#Surface
The snapshooterâ€™s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isnâ€™t straight. It isnâ€™t done well. It isnâ€™t composed. It isnâ€™t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.
-- Lisette Model

#Real #Expression #Knowing
They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives
-- Lisette Model

#Should #Darling #Print
I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.
-- Lisette Model

#Imperfection #Style #Snapshots
Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.
-- Lisette Model
This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.
-- Lisette Model

#Photography #Medicine #Space

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