Inspirational Photography Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  David Bailey

  Photography, Art, Learning

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• Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

  Tony Benn

  Inspirational, Photography, Things In Life

  "99 Things to Do between Here and Heaven" by Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone, (p. 65), June 2, 2009.

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• 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.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, People, Looks

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Humanness Is, People

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• I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Adventure, Thinking

  "Arbus Speaks" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.

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• Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Inspiration, Information

  "Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 80, 1966.

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• A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Feels

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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  Sam Abell

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.

  Gerardo Suter

  Photography, Insightful, Photograph

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• If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

  Linda McCartney

  Inspirational, Photography, Moving

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• Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

  Anne Geddes

  Strength, Photography, Impact

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• Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Reality, Interesting

  "Photographer Mary Ellen Mark's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

  Christopher Anderson

  Photography, Interesting, Feelings

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Giving, Leica

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• The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

  Brandon Stanton

  Photography, Frozen In Time, Cameras

  "Humans of New York". Interview with Brian Morris, glasschord.com.

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• No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

  Joe McNally

  Dream, Photography, Art

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• I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Falling In Love, Wandering Around

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Photography, Records

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• 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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Mean

  Annie Leibovitz (1983). “Photographs”, Pantheon Books

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• My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Photography, Nature

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

  Trent Parke

  Photography, Light, Forever

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• Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Heart, Way

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.90, Pearson Education

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