Inspirational Photography Quotes - Page 3

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

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Touching, Feelings

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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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• Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Past, Photographer

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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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• Light makes photography. Embrace light.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Light, Photographer

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• To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  Aaron Siskind

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

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• When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

  Ted Grant

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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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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• Only photograph what you love.

  Tim Walker

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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

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• It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

  Paul Caponigro

  Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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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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• I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

  Bruce Gilden

  Inspirational, Photography, Mean

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• The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Facts, Opinion

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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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• What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Eye, Black And White

  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 a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

  Robert Heinecken

  Photography, Differences, Photographer

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• Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Cameras, Location

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Facts, Portraits

  "ART; In the Portrait Game, the Photographer Wins" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. March 13, 1994.

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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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• In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

  August Sander

  Inspirational, Photography, Shadow

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• Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

  David Alan Harvey

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Photography, I Hate You

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