Lisette Model Quotes & Sayings

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach. — Lisette Model

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest. — Lisette Model

Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in. — Lisette Model

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. — Lisette Model

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest. — Lisette Model

The snapshooter's pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn't straight. It isn't done well. It isn't composed. It isn't thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life. — Lisette Model

They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives — Lisette Model

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don't want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson. — Lisette Model

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography. — Lisette Model

I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living ... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look? — Lisette Model

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth. — Lisette Model

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. — Lisette Model

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life. — Lisette Model

I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style. — Lisette Model

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second. — Lisette Model

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside. — Lisette Model