Michael Kenna Quotes

• Nada es dos veces igual porque todo se va para siempre, y sin embargo cada momento tiene infinitas posibilidades fotográficas.

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  Photography, Forever, Gone

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• Vemos en color todo el tiempo. Todo lo que nos rodea es en color. Por tanto, el blanco y negro es inmediatamente una interpretación del mundo, más que una copia.

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  Black And White, World, Interpretation

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• The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

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  Art, Broken, Golden

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• For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attempt to compete with the outside world. I believe it is calmer and gentler than colour, and persists longer in our visual memory.

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  Memories, Believe, Eye

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• I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

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  Photography, Thinking, Details

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• I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

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  Black And White, Firsts, Mysterious

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• As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

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  Landscape, Photographer, Possibility

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• I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

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  Believe, Style, Identity

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• Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

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  Photography, Eye, Impossible

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• Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder.

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  Mind, Beholder

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• I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

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  Photography, Men, Covering

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• Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.

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  Photography, Stars, Moving

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• I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing is ever the same. The options are endless.

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  Photography, Journey, Thinking

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• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

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  Memories, Past, Fire

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• I try not to make conscious decisions about what I am looking for. I don't make elaborate preparations before I go to a location. Essentially I walk, explore, discover and photograph.

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  Decision, Preparation, Trying

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• I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make one. Beauty and aesthetics are subjective, and very much in the mind of the beholder.

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  Thinking, Mind, Photograph

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• We all have choices and must make them for ourselves.

  Michael Kenna

  Opciones

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• Mi consejo a cualquier artista en ciernes es que nunca se conforme con imitar a otros. Esto no es más que un medio para alcanzar un fin. Un artista serio trabajará con intensidad para descubrirse a sí mismo, su propia visión personal. Creo que éste es un aspecto fundamental del camino creativo.

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  Believe, Mean, Artist

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• One advances by standing on the shoulders of giants, but the ultimate goal is to find one's own vision.

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  Goal, Vision, Giants

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• There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

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  Practice, Brave, Doubt

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• Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.

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  Letting Go, Artist, Journey

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• I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or two. I look for memories, traces, evidence of the human interaction with the landscape. Sometimes I photograph pure nature, sometimes urban structures.

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  Memories, Two, Atmosphere

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• Si tuviera que dar un consejo a otros fotógrafos, lo primero que sugeriría sería superar rápidamente las dudas sobre el equipo de la cámara. En mi humilde opinión, la marca y el formato de una cámara no son prioritarios a la hora de hacer fotos.

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  Humble, Giving, Advice

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• I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.

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  Photography, Careers, Way

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• I believe that we photographers don't benefit very much with answers from other photographers. What is more beneficial is to ask questions of ourselves and see what thoughts float out from within.

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  Believe, Answers, Benefits

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