Ralph Eugene Meatyard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Focus #Found #Subjects
Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Mask
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Imagination #Realistic #Photograph
I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Thinking #People #Tree
... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing.
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Real #Thinking #Compassion
I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Thinking #Ideas #Able
I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Thinking #People #Wish
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.
-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Philosophical #Reality #Groups

Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. Iâ€™d found my happiness.
Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.
Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard famous quotes

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