Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
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.
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )
Photography helps people to see.
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.
Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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.
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.
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