Good Photography Quotes

• If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Knowing, Cameras

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• Bad weather makes for good photography.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Weather, Bad Weather

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• A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

  Irving Penn

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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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, Photography, Heart

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• No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

  Robert Adams

  Inspirational, Good Night, Photography

  Robert Adams, Richard B. Woodward (2006). “Along some rivers: photographs and conversations”

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• A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Knowing, Photographer

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

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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

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

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

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

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• There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Two, Humanity

  "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

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• I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Simple, Effort

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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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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• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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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

  Photography, Heart, Humble

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• There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

  Tyra Banks

  Photography, Keys, Cameras

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• I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

  Gilles Peress

  Photography, Gathering, Care

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• Good photography is unpretentious.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Photographer

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• The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.

  Dennis Stock

  Photography, People, Cameras

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• You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

  Bruce Campbell

  Photography, Drama, Would Be

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• [David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Country, Real

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• Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Nonsense

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• Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Beer, Crafts

  Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

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