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What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms ... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.
An open and receptive attention to and awareness of what is occurring in the present moment
Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.
It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.
Expression is the mystery of beauty.
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
Only someone authentic, with a deep love of art, will radiate the enthusiasm needed to keep them engaged
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?"
"Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile
Charm, amuse, inspire, tempt, overwhelm, dazzle. Will you earn reward? (195)
A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
My face is expressionless: a thing of stone. I'm mastering this moment. She won't see anything but what I show her.
view. Absentmindedly
window, staring at
In a portrait, I'm looking for the silence in somebody.
His lithe and lethal grace is hypnotic, too, in the way he moves like a leopard in the African grass, even if it's just striding down a sidewalk. I got sucked into all this, but I can't afford to let it ...
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
The eye is the best of artists.
I think about a Richard Avedon photo series, the kind of faces he gets of real people, which I find so captivating. Fellini was also great in filling his films with this ambiance, this environment, sometimes chaotic and carnival-like, but people's faces were always amazing.
All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
Art is what is irresistible.
Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud.
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.
Let your eyes be the camera and your imagination be the set.
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
Like an impressionist's stroke on a canvas, up-close formed a new image. This image was vibrant and alive. This image was not the woman who
Lure me to the depths of passion
I'd thought of her with unblinking eyes, moving always, across the pages of opened books with rapid precision, but as she stood in front of me, her eyes looked slow and watery. I capsized into them.
[...] that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a smile
Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone ... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer ...
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
It's beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart..
Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.
Paranoid eyes with the fusion of passion and duplicity.
As if some faces could be doorways in
To life one has an image of
But never sees. The vista was
A strange and beautiful
Release
I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.
I am waylaid by beauty.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.
Vibrant eyes, chocolate brown, kind. The mosaic of Bodee Lennox.
I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it."
"It's very zingy," I agreed.
I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.
What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
See the big picture and details of everything in your life (zoom out, then zoom in).
dazzled by the sheer essence of the whole,
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Beauty without expression is boring.
There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.
This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped through in succession, leaving a richness of images imprinted on a sunburned retina.
I'm very big on focus.
You enhance the beauty of your life by sharpening your awareness and deepening your consciousness.
I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things-I crawl under them-I climb on them-I am on the head of a galloping horse.
You reveal me. Then you heal me Of all the scars and strife. And when my life was spinning downward, You caught me. I'd forgotten how to smile, but You re-taught me.
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much.
You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me.
You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life.
Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
She saw the world through a dazzling prism of authentic imagination.
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.
The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
charmed the words out of
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
Engage your mind in the bliss of wonder.
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.
[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.
If you blink enough and relax a whole new world is opened to you.
Talent is seductive.
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Natural elegance inspires the mind.
eyes I can't find words to describe.
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.
She could get lost staring into the kaleidoscope of unfathomable lifetimes swirling in a human iris. They were haunting and sober and wise, even when she coaxed a jaw-cracking sunny smile from the face they were set in.
Create and preserve the image of your choice.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power, by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I
There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property.
This land and I are rewilding.
E is betrayed by the cynical sparkle of her eyes, by her sophisticated look. Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.
The real me: A woman who continues to blossom into her authentic self.
Hathin stared out across the water and deliberately let her eyes unfocus slightly. It did no good lodging your gaze on the waves as they slid and fractured. The trick was to see nothing and everything, until you started to notice any tear or break in the rhythms of the water.
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.
Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
Absolute perfection is insidious.
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
She was rather handsome than beautiful. Her face was captivating by reason of a certain frankness of expression and a contradictory subtle play of features.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE
Her face lit up; illuminated by the enlightenment of recognition and the innocence of surprise.
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Mindless, beautiful, and deadly...