Photography Quotes - Page 16

• The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

  Susan Sontag

  Pain, Photographer, Constructs

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.82, Macmillan

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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Cameras, Use, Unattainable

  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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• If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.

  Robert Adams

  Quality, Alive, May

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

  Eliot Porter

  Realizing, Photograph

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• Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

  Bill Brandt

  Sports, Matter, Results

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• My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

  Edward Weston

  Eye, Ideas, Cameras

  "Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing" by Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor, (p. 75), 1978.

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• At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.

  Wynn Bullock

  Mean, Creative, Intuition

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• Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

  Ben Shahn

  Eye, Decision, Realizing

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• My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Powerful

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• As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

  Sam Abell

  Simplicity, Special, Cameras

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• It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

  Sam Abell

  Use, Littles, Matter

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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  Sam Abell

  Photographer, Best Work, Ability

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• When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Thinking, Mind

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• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Adversity, Light

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• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

  William Blake

  Wise, Teaching, Men

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Heart, Mean, Eye

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

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• You push the button, we do the rest.

  George Eastman

  Inspirational, Buttons, Kodak

  "Picture of a pioneer" by Nicholas Bannister, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

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• I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

  Wynn Bullock

  Real, Unique, Giving

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

  Edward Weston

  Mean, Photographer, Wells

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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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

  Eye, Heart, Cameras

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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, Forgotten Things

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• Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Way, Painting, Communicate

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

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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, Being Yourself, Looks

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• I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

  William Albert Allard

  Thinking, Interesting, Photographer

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• My first thought is always of light.

  Galen Rowell

  Light, Firsts

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