Photography Quotes - Page 12

• Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Painting

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• There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

  Arnold Newman

  Perfect, Rules And Regulations, Would Be

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• Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

  Ansel Adams

  Cameras, Photographer, Sometimes

  Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub

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• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

  Ansel Adams

  Years, Twelve, Photographer

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

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• When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Mean, Want

  Annie Leibovitz (1983). “Photographs”, Pantheon Books

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• I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

  Gerhard Richter

  Reality, Next, Imperfect

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Mar 13, 2014

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• The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

  John Szarkowski

  Best Picture

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• When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

  Edward Steichen

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• ... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Reality, Cameras, Records

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• Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

  Fay Godwin

  Book, Cameras, Looks

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• Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

  Paul Emsley

  Today, Easier, Accurate

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• Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

  Charles Sheeler

  Eye, Painting

  Charles Sheeler (1968). “Charles Sheeler: Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes [and] Charles Millard”

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• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

  Walter Benjamin

  Cameras, Doe, Optics

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

  Robert Capa

  War, Till The End, Photographer

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• Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Essence, Transcendentalism

  Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1987). “Henri Cartier-Bresson, the early work”

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• During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Too Late, Leica, Photographer

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• The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

  Robert Doisneau

  Movie, Directors, Actors

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• I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

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• I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Cameras, Would Be, Assistants

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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• Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

  George L. Carlson

  Littles, Intensity, Connected

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• I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Land, Wish

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• Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

  Galen Rowell

  American West, People, East

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• My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

  Nikki Sixx

  Cameras, Use, Matter

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• Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

  Ken Rockwell

  Eye, Artist, Skills

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• A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Two, Add, Three

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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