Quotes About Close Up Photography

#1. I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine ... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

Chuck Close

#2. The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

Chuck Close

#3. I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Chuck Close

#4. Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

Chuck Close

#5. I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

Chuck Close

#7. From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Chuck Close

#8. I can't always reach the image in my mind ... almost never, in fact ... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

Chuck Close

#9. War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

David Douglas Duncan

#10. I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.

Chris Killip

#11. A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.

Nina Berman

#12. I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

Edgar Ramirez

#13. a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time--
no heart can leap, no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea
For love are in you am in i are in we

E. E. Cummings

#14. Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Chuck Close

#16. You're deep and constant inside of me

Miklos Radnoti

#17. Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

Chuck Close

#18. There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.

Susan Meiselas

#19. I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a distance and then come up close but find nothing more to see, it's printed too large. It's not giving me any new information when I come up to it.

Bruce Barnbaum