Quotes About Expression

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photographier : c'est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l'oeil et le coeur.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.

How do you make your pictures? — I don't know, it's not important.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

You have to try and stay alive in front of what you see, struggle with reality, get rid of habits and routines. You have to train yourself to look all the time, swinging between the conscious and the unconscious. In a sort of dance, I practice immediate, automatic, and intuitive drawing. I get a Normas joy from it. But the flaunting of reportage—getting into situations, "working" a subject—that is not photography.

Words and phrases grew only slowly

I feel like a jug in which wine is poured until it overflows.

las manos son aún más bellas cuando no imitan nada.

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

il me faisait découvrir des auteurs qui savaient mettre tout plein de mots qui coupaient dans mon ventre, et alors ça faisait du bien de saigner un peu.

il a commencé à sortir tout un paquet de grandes phrases qui résonnaient sous la voûte, et qui semblaient n'avoir ni queue ni tête, sauf qu'elles avaient bien la queue et la tête et qu'elles voulaient dire toute la colère et la tristesse qu'Oscar avait à l'intérieur de lui […].

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Precision is not reality.

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.