Great Photography Quotes - Page 2

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

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

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

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Believe

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• I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Taken

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• Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

  Sally Mann

  Inspirational, Photography, Past

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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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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Expression, Photographer

  "A Personal Credo". American Annual of Photography, Vol. 58, 1944.

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

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Photographer, Photography By Photographers

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

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  You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Tools, Photographer

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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

  Anne Geddes

  Strength, Photography, Impact

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• When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Hands, Cameras

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• If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Shooting, Hearing

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• I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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• You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

  Joan Miro

  Inspirational, Photography, Thinking

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• The camera can photograph thought.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Photography, Cameras, Polemics

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• Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Photography, Today

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.25, Macmillan

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• The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Accessories, Gadgets

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• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Adventure, People

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• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

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• When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

  Wynn Bullock

  Inspirational, Photography, Answers

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

  Rory Sutherland

  Writing, Photographer, Familiar

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• A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Falling In Love

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