Photographer Quotes - Page 9

• Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

  Lisette Model

  Photography, Art, Hardest

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• I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

  Steve McCurry

  Life Is Too Short, Believe, Thinking

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• The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Photography, I Hate You

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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Good Enough, Photojournalism

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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• I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

  Richard Avedon

  Artist, Wanted

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• I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Believe

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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 whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• (1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.

  Andreas Feininger

  Differences, Cameras, Chance

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• Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Mistake, Emotion

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  You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

  Ansel Adams

  Music, Photography, Art

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Looks, Photograph, Ashamed

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Writing, Answers

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• All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, World, Technique

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• I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Trying, Economist

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• Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

  Berenice Abbott

  Real, People, Optimism

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• The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Thinking, People

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

  David LaChapelle

  Photography, Ideas, Crafts

  "David LaChapelle: “I Would Rather Die Than Be a Serious Artist, or a Fake Artist”". Interview with Jeanine Celeste Pang, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2010.

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• If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Willing, Visible

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• If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Not Interested, Ifs

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• 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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• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Twelve

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

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  A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Needs, Photograph

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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