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Photography Quotes
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The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks! (Quote by - Henri Cartier-Bresson)
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe. (Quote by - Ruth Bernhard)
The two most engaging powers of a photographer are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. (Quote by - W. Thackeray)
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. (Quote by - Galen Rowell)
Photography is truth. (Quote by - Jean-Luc Godard)
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. (Quote by - Walker Evans)
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. (Quote by - David Bailey)
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. (Quote by - Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. (Quote by - Robert Frank)
Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made. (Quote by - Sam Abell)
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. (Quote by - John Berger)