51 Quotes by John Paul Caponigro

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

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

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

Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

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.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

It’s important that we regularly reconsider, revise, and expand our practices, as our capabilities and needs evolve, both to strengthen our understanding of them and to promote our awareness of new practices and their conscientious uses.