Photography Quotes
Anonymous
"When people ask me what equipment I use - I tell them my eyes"
Ansel Adams
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
David Bailey
“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…”.
“If you are not looking, you won’t see.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
Robert Frank
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
Seth Godin
“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.
It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”
Ted Grant
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
Karl Lagerfeld
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
Dorothea Lange
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
Walter De Mulder
“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”
