Great Photography Quotes - Page 3

• The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  44 Copy quote

• 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.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

  29 Copy quote

• The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  19 Copy quote

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

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Leica, Interest

  9 Copy quote

• Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Photography, Today

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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Shapes, Rhythm

  12 Copy quote

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

  Ken Rockwell

  Photography, Jobs, Cameras

  9 Copy quote

• Beauty can be seen in all things.

  Matt Hardy

  Photography, Portraits, Photographer

  17 Copy quote

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Softball, Confidence, Winning

  56 Copy quote

• 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.

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Touching, Feelings

  68 Copy quote

• Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Inspiration, Information

  "Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 80, 1966.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Reality, Cameras

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

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Home, Cameras

  25 Copy quote

• A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Heart, Thinking

  62 Copy quote

• 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

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Records

  42 Copy quote

• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

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

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Inspiration, Technique

  "Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons (p. 80), 1966.

  118 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote
• 

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

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  99 Copy quote

• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

  97 Copy quote