Photography Quotes - Page 2

• Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

  David Alan Harvey

  Looks, Photographer, Feels

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• The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photographer, Great Photography, Photography By Photographers

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

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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

  People, Looks, Lines

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

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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, Heart, Thinking

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• Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Noticing Things, Function, Noticing

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• Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Drawing, Meditation

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

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• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Cameras, Photographer, Adam

  Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

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• A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

  Arnold Newman

  Heart, Thinking, Cameras

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• Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photographer, Great Photography, Edges

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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

  Moving, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.

  Robert Doisneau

  People, Laughing, Hunters

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Reality

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

  Elliott Erwitt

  World, Technique, Inability

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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, Art, Book

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• A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

  Ernst Haas

  Beautiful, Creativity, Expression

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• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Important, Cameras, Twelve

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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, Cameras, Photographer

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• In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Details, Littles, Photographer

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

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• There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

  Ernst Haas

  Creativity, Light, Cameras

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• A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

  Mark Twain

  Silly, Forever, Important

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.356, Courier Corporation

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• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Second Chance, Events

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

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• There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Looks, Faces, Photographer

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• Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Way, Originality, Shouting

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• Photography helps people to see.

  Berenice Abbott

  People, Helping, Photographer

  "Berenice Abbott: Still Feisty and Eager at 91" by Richard F.Shepard. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1989.

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• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  Lewis Hine

  Inspirational, Insightful, Cameras

  Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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