Photographer Quotes - Page 3

• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

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• What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Tragedy, Skins

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• The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Jobs, Views

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Essence

  Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”

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• It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Use, Littles

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• I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Different, Would Be

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• I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Cameras, Would Be

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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• The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Perfect, Rules And Regulations

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• We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Fleeting, World

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• Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Corny

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

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• Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

  Ansel Adams

  Notebook, Photography, Should

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• We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• Photography is a love affair with life.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Affair, Love Affair

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• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Jobs, Portraits

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• I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Diplomats

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• Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Car, Yards

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• Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Missing

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• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Technique

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• 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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• At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Mean, Creative

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• Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Teacher, Artist

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• If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Cutting, Giving

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