Paul Caponigro Quotes
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.
The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.
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.
Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.
While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.
Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.
Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.
It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
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.
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?'
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.
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.
