Photography By Photographers Quotes - Page 2

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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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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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

Photography, Reality, Cameras

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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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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The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Andy Warhol

Inspirational, Photography, I Hate You

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

August Sander

Inspirational, Photography, Shadow

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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Ansel Adams

Music, Photography, Art

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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

Matt Hardy

Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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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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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Book, Intuition

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

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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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Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Imogen Cunningham

Inspirational, Photography, Art

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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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When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

Ted Grant

Photography, Black And White, Color

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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

"Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

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I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

Trent Parke

Photography, Light, Forever

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I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Richard Avedon

Photography, Art, Thinking

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Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

Diane Arbus

Inspirational, Photography, Night

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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

Photography, Art, Eye

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

Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography, Photographer, Great Photography

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

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Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

Andre Kertesz

Photography, Photographer, Enough

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If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

Linda McCartney

Inspirational, Photography, Moving

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

Photography, Men, Records

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