Great Photography Quotes - Page 3

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Pablo Picasso

Photography, Photographer, Brilliant

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Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Leica, Interest

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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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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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The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

Photography, Eye, Feelings

Lesley K. Baier, Walker Evans, Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, Mass.) (1977). “Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 16 November, 1977-23 January, 1978”

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

Ken Rockwell

Photography, Jobs, Cameras

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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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What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Shapes, Rhythm

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

Rory Sutherland

Writing, Photographer, Familiar

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Only photograph what you love.

Tim Walker

Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

Tim Walker (2008). “Pictures”, p.28, teNeues

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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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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

Photography, Creativity, Light

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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

Photography, People, Looks

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

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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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A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Edward Steichen

Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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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

Photography, Earth, Vanishing

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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

Life, Photography, Eye

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Life, Change

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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, Photography, Cameras

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Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

Matt Hardy

Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

Arthur Ashe

Softball, Confidence, Winning

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My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Steve McCurry

Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

"Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Alfred Stieglitz

Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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