Photography By Photographers Quotes - Page 4

• Beauty can be seen in all things.

  Matt Hardy

  Photography, Portraits, Photographer

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• There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

  Robert Heinecken

  Photography, Differences, Photographer

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• You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Giving, Leica

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• I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

  Joe Manganiello

  Photography, Thinking, Males

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Photography, Records

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• The camera can photograph thought.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Photography, Cameras, Polemics

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• My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Jobs, Portraits

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• Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Light, Photographer

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• Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Character

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• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Travel, 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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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Feelings, Faces

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

  David LaChapelle

  Photography, Lying, People

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  You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Tools, Photographer

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

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Touching, Feelings

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• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Communication

  Ansel Adams (1962). “Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography”

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• The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Reality, Want

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• Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Hunters, Next

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• When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Hands, Cameras

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• There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Two, Humanity

  "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

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• While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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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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• Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

  William Klein

  Inspirational, Photography, Being Yourself

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• I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.

  Gerardo Suter

  Photography, Insightful, Photograph

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