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)
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. (Quote by - Edward Steichen)
I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography. (Quote by - John Sexton)
I've been working with photography for many years. (Quote by - Leonard Nimoy)
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. (Quote by - James Wilson)
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic. (Quote by - Brett Weston)
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
A photograph is memory in the raw (Quote by - Carrie Latet)
The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same. (Quote by - Wynn Bullock)
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. (Quote by - Diane Arbus)
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. (Quote by - W. Eugene Smith)
When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital. (Quote by - Vicki Goldberg)
I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity. (Quote by - Bob Anderson)
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. (Quote by - John Loengard)
You don't take a photograph, you make it. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a pene- trating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity. (Quote by - Berenice Abbott)
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college. (Quote by - John Sexton)
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. (Quote by - Henri Cartier-Bresson)
It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. (Quote by - James Lalropui Keivom)
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis. (Quote by - Tipper Gore)
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. (Quote by - Mary Ellen Mark)
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. (Quote by - Sydney Pollack)
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that (Quote by - Mary Baker Eddy)
Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. (Quote by - Margaret Bourke-White)
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. (Quote by - Berenice Abbott)
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Where 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 ro see. (Quote by - Dorthea Lange)
I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands. (Quote by - John Dykstra)
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. (Quote by - Arnold Newman)
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film (Quote by - Robert Adams)
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. (Quote by - Frank Deford)
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. (Quote by - Ray Harryhausen)
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. (Quote by - Alfred Stieglitz)
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. (Quote by - Diane Arbus)
The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color – to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty. (Quote by - Mary Ellen Mark)
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that. (Quote by - John Dykstra)
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. (Quote by - Lisette Model)
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. (Quote by - Edward Weston)
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. (Quote by - Bill Wyman)
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. (Quote by - Jacques-Henri Lartigue)
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! (Quote by - John Sexton)
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. (Quote by - W. Eugene Smith)
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. (Quote by - Thomas Wilson)
Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.. (Quote by - Paul Simon)
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever . . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. (Quote by - Aaron Siskind)
For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to. (Quote by - Matthew Modine)
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. (Quote by - Sam Abbel)
To manipulate an image is to control a people (Quote by - Carolyn Gerard)
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot. (Quote by - Nigel Dennis)
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this. (Quote by - James Mcneill Whistler)
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. (Quote by - Gary Winogrand)
Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything. (Quote by - Leonard Misonne)
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. (Quote by - Ruth Bernhard)
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children.No formal training. (Quote by - Fay Godwin)
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. (Quote by - Sir Joshua Reynolds)
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom. (Quote by - John Sexton)
Photography is my passion. (Quote by - Alfred Stieglitz)
My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was. (Quote by - Kim Weston)
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan a picture, but when you come back, reason then takes over and verifies or rejects whatever you've done. So that's why I say that reason and intuition are not in conflict--they strengthen each other. (Quote by - Wynn Bullock)
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures (Quote by - Helmut Newton)
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. (Quote by - Berenice Abbott)
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history (Quote by - Cornell Capa)
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph (Quote by - Annie Leibovitz)
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photo- graphing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. (Quote by - William Albert Allard)
I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself. (Quote by - Kim Weston)
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. (Quote by - Ruth Bernhard)
Contrast is what makes photography interesting. (Quote by - Conrad Hall)
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. (Quote by - Wynn Bullock)
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography. (Quote by - Nigel Dennis)
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. (Quote by - John Berger)
Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. (Quote by - Pieter Zeeman)
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. (Quote by - Robert Mapplethorpe)
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration (Quote by - Sadakichi Hartmann)
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! (Quote by - DeGriff)
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer. (Quote by - Spike Lee)
Light makes photography. Embrace light. (Quote by - Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. (Quote by - George Eastman)
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. (Quote by - John Sexton)
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. (Quote by - Ken Burns)
I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. (Quote by - Leonard Nimoy)
Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between (Quote by - George H. Harrison)
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. (Quote by - Harold Evans)
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone. (Quote by - William Albert Allard)
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. (Quote by - Henri Cartier Bresson)
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. (Quote by - Layne Staley)
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. (Quote by - Jean-Luc Godard)
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. (Quote by - William Albert Allard)
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. (Quote by - Tony Benn)
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. (Quote by - Parker Stevenson)
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be (Quote by - Edward Weston)
Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. (Quote by - Anon)
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives. (Quote by - Kim Weston)
The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity. (Quote by - Murphy's Rules)
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. (Quote by - Usman B. Asif)
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. (Quote by - Berenice Abbott)
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. (Quote by - W. Eugene Smith)
I just love the world of photography. (Quote by - Brooke Burke )
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything (Quote by - Aaron Siskind)
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. (Quote by - Sarah Sutton)
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. (Quote by - Elliott Erwitt)
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. (Quote by - Andres Serrano)
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. (Quote by - Herb Ritts)
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness (Quote by - Paul Strand)
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. (Quote by - Sam Abell)
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. (Quote by - Edward Weston)
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them (Quote by - Elliott Erwitt)
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. (Quote by - Archibald Philip Primrose)
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time -- this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. (Quote by - Jane Welsh Carlyle)
A photograph is like the recipe - a memory the finished dish. (Quote by - Carrie Latet)
I've got a great collection of photography. (Quote by - Elton John)
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. (Quote by - Edward Steichen)
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. (Quote by - Eliot Porter)
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. (Quote by - Unknow)
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! (Quote by - Ted Grant)
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. (Quote by - Richard Avedon)
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic (Quote by - Dirk Bogarde)
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. (Quote by - Fay Godwin)
the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads—as an anthology of images (Quote by - Rick Steves)
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. (Quote by - Lewis Hine)
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. (Quote by - Herb Ritts)
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. (Quote by - Dorothea Lange)
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre. (Quote by - Brassai)
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. (Quote by - Henri Cartier-Bresson)
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. (Quote by - Richard Avedon)
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. (Quote by - Edward Weston)
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts (Quote by - Minor White)
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy. (Quote by - Galen Rowell)
I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is. (Quote by - Matthew Modine)
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing. (Quote by - Syd Barrett)
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees (Quote by - Paul Strand)
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. (Quote by - Steven Soderbergh)
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck. (Quote by - Henry Winkler)
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. (Quote by - Louis Fabian Bachrach)
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. (Quote by - Walker Evans)
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. (Quote by - David Hockney)
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. (Quote by - Henri Cartier Bresson)
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice (Quote by - Minor White)
To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. (Quote by - Henri Cartier Bresson)
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. (Quote by - Imogen Cunningham)
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. (Quote by - Brooks Anderson)
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. (Quote by - Edward Steichen)
score, and the print the performance (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. (Quote by - Berenice Abbott)
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced.The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. (Quote by - Sam Abell)
It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. (Quote by - John Sexton)
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." (Quote by - John Loengard)
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. (Quote by - Edward Steichen)
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever (Quote by - George Tice)
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too. (Quote by - Wynn Bullock)
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite. (Quote by - John Szarkowski)
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. (Quote by - Bill Wyman)
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be (Quote by - Duane Michals)
He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography. (Quote by - John Sexton)
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technicque, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. (Quote by - Man ray)
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual. (Quote by - Nickolas Muray)
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. (Quote by - Henri Cartier Bresson)
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. (Quote by - Robert Heinecken)
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph the way you believe it. (Quote by - Mary Ellen Mark)
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are (Quote by - Ernst Haas)
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? (Quote by - Ernst Haas )
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc. it is still a gold standard for science fiction. (Quote by - Matthew Modine)
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need. (Quote by - Ken Rockwell)
If photography were difficult in the true sense that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. (Quote by - Eudora Welty)
I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
You learn to see by practice. It's just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it. (Quote by - Eliot Porter)
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track. (Quote by - Arthur Fellig)
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. (Quote by - Dorothea Lange)
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. (Quote by - Roman Jakobson)
I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do. (Quote by - Paul Kane)
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. (Quote by - Jacques-Henri Lartigue)
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. (Quote by - Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. (Quote by - Henri Cartier Bresson)
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want. (Quote by - Ken Rockwell)
Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection . . . (Quote by - Edward Weston)
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. (Quote by - Don McCullin)
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. (Quote by - Harry Callahan)
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. (Quote by - Galen Rowell)
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens (Quote by - Karl Heiner)
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light. (Quote by - Galen Rowell)
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical. (Quote by - Annie Leibovitz)
No matter how slow the film, spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen. (Quote by - Minor White)
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. (Quote by - Galen Rowell)
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. (Quote by - August Sander)
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. (Quote by - Berenice Abbott)
I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying. (Quote by - John Sexton)
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind (Quote by - Dorothea Lange)
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
