Photograph Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Hunters, Next

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• Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Hate

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• While 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 to see.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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• If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Saws, Photographer

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• Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Law, Littles

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• The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Realizing

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• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

  Garry Winogrand

  Inspiring, Photography, Four

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• The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Earth

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• The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lincoln Kirstein, Beaumont Newhall (1963). “Photographs”

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• While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Leica, Photographer

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• I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Thinking, Two

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• 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.

  Robert Heinecken

  Photography, Differences, World

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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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• The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Creative, Etching

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

  Ken Rockwell

  Photography, Jobs, Cameras

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• Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

  Ken Rockwell

  Photography, Eye, Artist

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• Light makes photography. Embrace light.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Light, Photographer

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• I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, World

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• I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• 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.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Ducks, Water

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Moving, Thoughtful

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• A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

  Eugene Atget

  Photography, Dog, Dumb

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• What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Shapes, Rhythm

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• I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Powerful, War, Emotional

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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