Caponigro Photographer Quotes & Sayings

Seek freedom within action. — Paul Caponigro

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

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile. — Paul Caponigro

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. — Grandma Moses

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

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another. — John Paul Caponigro

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver. — Paul Caponigro

You know, men don't think like women."
"Well ... " I pulled a face. "That's because you have the emotional capacity of a shot cup. — Samantha Young

The frame frames a frame of mind. — John Paul Caponigro

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. — Gustave Flaubert

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

My mantra is, 'This or something better.' — John Paul Caponigro

I'd rather let the world down than to allow the world to let me down. — Cao Cao

The best plans evolve. — John Paul Caponigro

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

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing? — John Paul Caponigro

I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!' — Joss Whedon

I use my music to tune myself. — Paul Caponigro

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

One Size Does Not Fit All Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn't really discover what they could do - and who they really were - until they'd left school and recovered from their education. — Ken Robinson

Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large! — Zhuangzi

Unable to farm the area where they now lived, many turned to logging and working in small sawmills. Some men raised cattle and became ranchers. — Ora Jay Eash

and who compound that error by conflating their sense of truth — Bradley Shavit Artson

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

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

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

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment? — Paul Caponigro

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal. — John Paul Caponigro

We see the world through our experience. — John Paul Caponigro

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence. — Paul Caponigro