Photography By Photographers Quotes - Page 3

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Susan Sontag

Inspirational, Photography, Today

Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.25, Macmillan

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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 the power of observation, not the application of technology.

Ken Rockwell

Photography, Technology, Observation

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

Photography, Men, Records

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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Dorothea Lange

Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

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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The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

Don Chadwick

Photography, Average, Focus

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If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

Bruce Gilden

Photography, Smell, Streets

FaceBook post by Bruce Gilden from Oct 18, 2012

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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Dorothea Lange

Life, Photography, Hate

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Photography is a love affair with life.

Burk Uzzle

Photography, Photographer, Affair

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

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

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I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Gilles Peress

Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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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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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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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Eye, Heart

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Light makes photography. Embrace light.

George Eastman

Photography, Light, Photographer

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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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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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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 thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

Inspirational, Photography, Falling In Love

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When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

Robert Frank

Photography, People, Looks

Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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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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If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

Jay Maisel

Photography, Shooting, Hearing

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Life, Change

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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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