Quotes by
James Elliott

Photography is indisputably the most powerful visual art form ever devised by Man.

When people say Photography is not Art what they actually mean is THEIR photography is not art.

Photography is as easy as you are to please.

Photography is the Art Of Light and represents the epitome of Man's progress within the Arts and as such is inevitably the most powerful and compelling.

Photography is about sustaining a creative continuum until you create a visual orgasm, suspended in Time for eternal ecstasy. What you see forever may only occur for a fraction of a second and only occurs once. I have tried to re-create photographs - you can't. Better or worse, yes - but the same, no! Nothing in this Life is ever the same twice. You might THINK it is, but you just aren't looking closely enough.

Photography : so many attempts - so few masterpieces.

To master Photography you need the brain of a scientist and the mind of an artist.

You know Photography is a hard, unforgiving and critical taskmaster. You don't need a critic. The medium itself makes it glaringly obvious what is wrong.

As an Artist I feel like an Old Renaissance Master who inadvertently wandered into the Asylum of Modern Art, didn’t get on with the cretins and so tried to stand in one corner, leant on the wrong door, fell through it into a time warp and ended up fifty years into the future.