Photographer Quotes - Page 7

• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Earth, Vanishing

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• 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.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

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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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• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Powerful, Communication

  Ansel Adams, Edwin Herbert Land (1974). “Singular images”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

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• The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

  Susan Meiselas

  Inspirational, Photography, Giving

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Communication

  Ansel Adams (1962). “Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography”

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• 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.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Naughty, Favorites Things

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• I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Taken

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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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• The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Reality, Want

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• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Inspiration, Technique

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

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• 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. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

  Ruth Orkin

  People, Looks, Want

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• To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Reality, Joy

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• The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

  Berenice Abbott

  Cameras, Preservation, Instruments

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• 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.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Simplicity, Special

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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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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Country, Jobs

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Skins, Trying

  "Philosophers set in stone: Steve Pyke's piercing portraits" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Too Late, Leica

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