Aaron Siskind Quotes

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.