Camera And Photography Quotes - Page 3

• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

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• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

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• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Earth, Vanishing

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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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• 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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• 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

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

  Orson Welles

  Photography, Cameras, World

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• The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

  Don Chadwick

  Photography, Average, Focus

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• But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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