Photographer Quotes - Page 4

• Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Drawing

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

  Minor White

  Photography, Attention, Stills

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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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• 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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• For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Lying

  "War Photographer". Documentary, War, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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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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• Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Moments, Fixed

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• It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Instruments

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Photography, Records

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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  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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• I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

  Herb Ritts

  Shapes, Form

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

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Unattainable, Life Is

  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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  You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Tools, Push Yourself

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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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• It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art Photography, Photography By Photographers

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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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• Only photograph what you love.

  Tim Walker

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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

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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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• Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Inspiring, Photography, Moments

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• The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Great Photography, Photography By Photographers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

  Galen Rowell

  Inspirational, Photography, Nature

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