Ralph Steiner quotes
-
“Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.”
-- Ralph SteinerSource : Ralph Steiner (1978). “A point of view”, Wesleyan
-
“Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.”
-- Ralph SteinerSource : "A point of view".
-
“These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.”
-- Ralph Steiner -
“By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.”
-- Ralph Steiner -
-
“There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.”
-- Ralph Steiner
-
Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
-
Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
You may also like:
-
Alex North
Composer -
Alfred Stieglitz
Photographer -
Andre Kertesz
Photographer -
Ansel Adams
Photographer -
Berenice Abbott
Photographer -
Dorothea Lange
Photographer -
Edward Steichen
Photographer -
Edward Weston
Photographer -
Elia Kazan
Producer -
Erskine Caldwell
Author -
George A Tice
Photographer -
Hans Richter
Painter -
Imogen Cunningham
Photographer -
Lewis Hine
Photographer -
Lewis Mumford
Historian -
Man Ray
Artist -
Paul Outerbridge
Photographer -
Paul Strand
Photographer -
Walker Evans
Photographer -
Weegee
Photographer