Bill Atkinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things clearly and differently, and sharing that vision with others. I have developed my vision and my photographic craft in order to bring the beauty of nature to light in a fresh way that can inspire and nourish people.
-- Bill Atkinson

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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
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.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

Bill Atkinson famous quotes

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