Photography Quotes - Page 7

• Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Liars, Lying, Ideas

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• All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

  John Berger

  Pain, Opposites, Different

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• I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Perfect, Today, Madness

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”

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• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Art, Eye, People

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

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

  Ken Rockwell

  Jobs, Cameras, Way

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• We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.

  Joe McNally

  Passion, The End Of The Day, Photographer

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• There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.

  Rankin

  Stars, People, Shooting

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• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  Galen Rowell

  Mean, Thinking, Artist

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• The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

  Jacob Collins

  Artist, Reliance

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• For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Spiritual, Emotional, Essence

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• Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Portraits, Painting, Starting

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• My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Past, Diaries, Each Day

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• The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Artist, Giving, Cameras

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Heart, Humble, Creative

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• That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

  Robert Breault

  Reality, Portions, Understood

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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

  Earth, Vanishing, Photographer

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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

  Edward Steichen

  Feelings, Faces, Records

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

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• What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?

  Robert Capa

  Exposure, Ifs

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

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Nature, Travel

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

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• I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

  Harry Callahan

  Believe, People, Spirit

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• To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

  Harry Callahan

  Book, Simple, Photographer

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• Life is once. Forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Forever, Life Is

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• Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

  Nelson Shanks

  Night, Reality, Hints

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• It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photographer, Art Photography, Photography By Photographers

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• It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Lenses, Instruments, Exaggeration

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