Photographer Quotes - Page 6

• 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 traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Eye, Feelings

  Lesley K. Baier, Walker Evans, Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, Mass.) (1977). “Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 16 November, 1977-23 January, 1978”

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• 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.

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photograph

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• Beauty can be seen in all things.

  Matt Hardy

  Photography, Portraits, All Things

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• Light makes photography. Embrace light.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Light, Embrace

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• The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Cameras, Instruments

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

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Touching, Feelings

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• As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.

  George A Tice

  Photography, Mirrors, Mind

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• I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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

  David Alan Harvey

  Photography, Looks, Feels

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• There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Brilliant, Great Photography

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• If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Knowing, Cameras

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• When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

  Wynn Bullock

  Inspirational, Photography, Answers

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  Lewis Hine

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

  Gilles Peress

  Inspirational, Photography, Don't Trust

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

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

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• Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

  Don McCullin

  Inspirational, Photography, Feelings

  "Governance and Resistance in World Politics". Book by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, and Bice Maiguashca, p. 68, 2003.

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• Photography helps people to see.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, People, Helping

  "Berenice Abbott: Still Feisty and Eager at 91" by Richard F.Shepard. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1989.

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• Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Sometimes

  Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

  Tony Benn

  Inspirational, Photography, Things In Life

  "99 Things to Do between Here and Heaven" by Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone, (p. 65), June 2, 2009.

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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