Top 55 Paul Caponigro Quotes
#1. Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.
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#2. We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
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#3. I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.
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#4. Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.
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#6. We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.
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#8. Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.
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#9. All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.
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#10. Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
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#11. I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.
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#13. Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.
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#14. Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.
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#15. The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal ... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious intuitive mind can be better grasped by the conscious rational mind. Aligning the two produces powerful results.
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#17. The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'
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#19. Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.
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#20. With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.
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#21. We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?
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#22. While many conclusions are drawn ... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers ... an ongoing process of discovery.
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#23. Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
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#24. The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.
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#26. Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?
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#27. How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?
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#28. It's important that we regularly reconsider, revise, and expand our practices, as our capabilities and needs evolve, both to strengthen our understanding of them and to promote our awareness of new practices and their conscientious uses.
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#29. Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.
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#31. The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.
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#32. We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.
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#33. Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?
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#34. Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.
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#35. The effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
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#36. Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.
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#37. Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it ... I move in wonder through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace.
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#40. The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.
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#41. Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.
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#43. All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less about objects and more about the space that contains them. Still fewer photographs are about light itself.
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#44. I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.
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#47. It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.
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#49. As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our total physical and psychic existence. We are always in touch with it.
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#51. It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.
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#52. I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
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#53. It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
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#54. Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.
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