Harold Feinstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
-- Harold Feinstein

#Sweet #Pain #Cameras
When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.
-- Harold Feinstein

#Mouths #Clicks #Shutters
On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.
-- Harold Feinstein

#Hands #Want #Spontaneity
[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.
-- Harold Feinstein

#Firsts #Causes #First Time
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.
-- Harold Feinstein

#Overwhelmed #Photograph #Where You Are

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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending â€“ sweet or sour â€“ and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.
I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.

Harold Feinstein famous quotes

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