Lee Friedlander Photography Quotes & Sayings

Photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest. — Lee Friedlander

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It's a generous medium, photography. — Lee Friedlander

The world makes up my pictures, not me. — Lee Friedlander

We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Photography is a generous medium ... — Lee Friedlander

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world. — Lee Friedlander

Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something. — Lee Friedlander

Analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it). — James K.A. Smith

Medication can make a bad situation tolerable and mask the need for change. — Julie Holland

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting. — Lee Friedlander

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is ... We are all overbrained and overemotioned. — Barry Hannah

The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings. — Lee Friedlander

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. — Leonard Ravenhill

I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently, and make different kinds of pictures, if you have to set up a view camera on a tripod than if you're Lee Friedlander with handheld 35 mm rangefinder. But fundamentally, vision is not about which camera or how many megapixels you have, it's about what you find important. It's all about ideas. — Keith Carter

James got some good looks that he just didn't knock down, as did Buckley. James has been pretty consistent, but the reality is when he and Melvin go 2 for 21 and Solomon (Jones) only gets four offensive rebounds, this is going to be the outcome. — Robert McCullum

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting. — Lee Friedlander

A mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important. — Lee Friedlander

When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together? — Lee Friedlander

I'm feeling better after the game than I did when I came off the floor with cramps ... I was going to try to give it a go, and 'Spo said 'No.' You know, after I came out of the game, they kind of took off. And it was frustrating sitting out and not being able to help the team. — LeBron James

What's wrong with her soul?"
"Nothing. She's just not actually in possession of it. — Rachel Vincent

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions. — Lee Friedlander