Inspirational Photography Quotes - Page 5

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Inspirational, Life, Change

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Abraham Lincoln

Photography, Looks, Faces

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If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Eve Arnold

Inspirational, Photography, People

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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 whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Elliott Erwitt

Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

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

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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman

Photography, Creativity, Keys

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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

Garry Winogrand

Photography, Saws, Photographer

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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Knowing, Photographer

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

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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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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Garry Winogrand

Inspiring, Photography, Four

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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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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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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Reality, Joy

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If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Eve Arnold

Photography, People, Cameras

Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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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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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

George Bernard Shaw

Photography, Maturity, Order

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