Photography Quotes - Page 18

• If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Want, Way, Sometimes

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• Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

  Andreas Feininger

  Light, Color, Excellence

  Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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• As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Names, Matter, Facts

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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

  Paul Strand

  Life, Records, Photographer

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

  Sam Abell

  Photographer, Deny, Appeals

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• Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Expression, Intuition

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• I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

  Gilles Peress

  Inspirational, Photographer, Don't Trust

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• I just get the will to do it.  I don’t plan a photograph in advance…  I work by impulse.  No philosophy.  No ideas.  Not by the head but by the eyes.  Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Philosophy, Inspiration, Creativity

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• My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

  Nick Brandt

  Romantic, Idyllic, World

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• If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

  Steve McCurry

  Funny, Home, Discovery

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• The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

  Chase Jarvis

  Entrepreneur, Cameras, Directors

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• I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

  Sally Mann

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

  Stephen Shore

  Order, Photographer, Structure

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• A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

  Saul Leiter

  Beauty, Art, Portraits

  "In No Great Hurry: Film Review" by John DeFore, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 6, 2014.

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• The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

  Peter Lik

  Inspirational, Nature, Passion

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• I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Hope, Loneliness

  "Creating Photographic Art - Exclusive Interview With Gregory Crewdson". Interview with David Geffin, fstoppers.com. October 11, 2014.

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• To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.

  Todd Hido

  Fall, Emotional, Effectiveness

  "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.

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• If you love something, the work will be just fine.

  Herbert Matter

  Love, Work, Graphic Design

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• I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

  Hope Edelman

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

  Don McCullin

  Jobs, Cameras, Doe

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• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Our World, Understanding, Trying

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Speaks Out, Ties, Together

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• Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

  Sarah Moon

  Fashion, Order, Firsts

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• Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Mistake, Ideas

  "It Began with Madame de Pompadour". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. July 2013.

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