Photography By Photographers Quotes

• 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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• The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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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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• No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

  Robert Adams

  Inspirational, Good Night, Photography

  Robert Adams, Richard B. Woodward (2006). “Along some rivers: photographs and conversations”

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

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

  David Bailey

  Photography, Art, Learning

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, 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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• A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

  Edward Steichen

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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

  Marc Riboud

  Inspirational, Life, Photography

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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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• 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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• 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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• One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

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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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• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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• The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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  Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Creativity, Keys

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

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• The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

  Susan Meiselas

  Inspirational, Photography, Giving

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• If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Saws, Photographer

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• A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Heart, Thinking

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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