John Paul Caponigro Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Filters #Lenses #Inward

“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.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#World #Way #Responsible

“Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Records #Way #Photographer

“Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photography #Hands #Perception

“We see the world through our experience.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#World #Photographer

“The frame frames a frame of mind.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Mind #Photographer

“Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#People #Different #Tools

“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.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Littles #Information #Photographer

“Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photographer #Tempted #Direct

“Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Way #Photographer #Speak

“We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photography #Writing #Photographer

“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.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Practice #Understanding #Important

“Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photographer #Surface

“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.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Light #Space #Majority

“To be sure, not all moments are equally fleeting. Some moments last longer than others. And certain events do reoccur more than once and even recur repeatedly. Sometimes you do get more than one chance. Sometimes you don't. It helps to know how long a window of opportunity you have and if you'll get another chance.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Opportunity #Long #Events

“My mantra is, 'This or something better.'”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photographer #Something Better

“It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Beautiful #Photographer #Beautiful Things

“Art is a journey of discovery.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Art #Journey #Discovery

“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.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Art #Real #Thinking

“The best plans evolve.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photographer #Evolve #Plans

“Seeing creates growth.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Growth #Photographer

“Looking and seeing are two different things.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Two #Different #Photographer

“Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Eye #Two #Focus

“A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Looks #Photographer #Photograph

“Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Important #Degrees #Way

“Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Degrees #Photographer #Photograph

“Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Photographer #Should

“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.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Gratitude #Moving #Inspiration

“Less information often leads to more interpretation.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Information #Interpretation

“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.”
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Creativity #Giving #Attention