Inspiring Photography Quotes - Page 2

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Eye, Expression

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

Berenice Abbott

Photography, Past, Photographer

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

Diane Arbus

Inspirational, Photography, Believe

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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Abraham Lincoln

Photography, Looks, Faces

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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Garry Winogrand

Inspiring, Photography, Four

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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

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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Reality, Joy

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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

David Alan Harvey

Photography, Looks, Photographer

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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Eve Arnold

Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Marc Riboud

Inspirational, Life, Photography

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Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Eye, Expression

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You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Ansel Adams

Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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

Aaron Siskind

Photography, Touching, Feelings

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Light makes photography. Embrace light.

George Eastman

Photography, Light, Photographer

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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Edward Weston

Photography, Law, Littles

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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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Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningham

Inspirational, Photography, Art

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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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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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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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