Camera And Photography Quotes - Page 2

• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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• The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Inspirational, Photography, Eye

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• It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Heart

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• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Insightful, Nikon

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• 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.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Photography, Artist, Giving

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, People, Cameras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Ken Rockwell

  Photography, Cameras, Needs

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• There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Digital Photography

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• No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

  Robert Adams

  Inspirational, Good Night, Photography

  Robert Adams, Richard B. Woodward (2006). “Along some rivers: photographs and conversations”

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

  John Steinbeck

  Photography, Hate, Cameras

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.65, Penguin

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• Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Mistake, Care

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, People, Cameras

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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• All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

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• It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Inspirational, Photography, People

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• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

  Harold Evans

  Photography, Lying, Cameras

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Hands, Cameras

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• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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