Camera And Photography Quotes

• 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

  Photography, Simplicity, Special

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• A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Heart, Thinking

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• I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Powerful, Eye

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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

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

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• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

  Minor White

  Photography, Travel, Heart

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• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Photography, Sweet, Art

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

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Travel, Cameras

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• The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

  Brandon Stanton

  Photography, Frozen In Time, Cameras

  "Humans of New York". Interview with Brian Morris, glasschord.com.

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• The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

  Susan Meiselas

  Inspirational, Photography, Giving

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• There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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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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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  Lewis Hine

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Book, Intuition

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

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• Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Cameras, Location

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Differences, Cameras

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• Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Home, Cameras

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• The camera can photograph thought.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Photography, Cameras, Polemics

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• A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

  Edward Steichen

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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  One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Reality, Cameras

  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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  You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

  Ansel Adams

  Music, Photography, Art

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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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• The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

  Ken Rockwell

  Photography, Jobs, Cameras

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