Photography By Photographers Quotes

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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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 don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Gilles Peress

Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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Photography is a love affair with life.

Burk Uzzle

Photography, Photographer, Affair

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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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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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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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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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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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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

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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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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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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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A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Edward Steichen

Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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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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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Man Ray

Photography, Inspiration, Technique

"Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons (p. 80), 1966.

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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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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Alfred Stieglitz

Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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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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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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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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Only photograph what you love.

Tim Walker

Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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

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Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Elliott Erwitt

Photography, Home, Cameras

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

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Art

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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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