It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

  • -- David Bailey 大卫·贝利

成为一名优秀的摄影师需要很大的想象力。成为一名画家,你不需要太多的想象力,因为你可以创造东西。但在摄影中,一切都是那么平凡;在你学会看到不平凡之前,你需要仔细观察。

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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

也许在某个领域,照片只能告诉我们我们亲眼所见,除此之外别无其他,但在另一个领域,它向我们证明,我们的眼睛不允许我们看到多少东西。

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

想象的乐趣就像图画和模型一样,是那些买不起真品的穷人玩的。

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

当涉及到制造恐怖时,人类的思维受到了足够的启发;只有当它试图创造一个天堂时,它才显得土里土气。

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

我觉得很有趣的是,某些类型的女性激发了人们的想象力,而她们都是非常难相处的女性。

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

想要发动战争的统治者非常清楚,他们必须找到或创造出第一个受害者。

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

我是一个摄影爱好者,所以我和视觉艺术有关联,但我不是画家。

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

我不害怕摄影,只要它不能在天堂和地狱使用。

I did painting before I did photography.

我在摄影之前画过画。