John Paul Caponigro Quotes

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and 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.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

We see the world through our experience.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

The frame frames a frame of mind.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

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

Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

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

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

The best plans evolve.

A good question has many answers.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

Seeing creates growth.

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Art is a journey of discovery.