Photographer Quotes

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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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  I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Fall, Happened

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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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• In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Details, Littles

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

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

  Bruno Barbey

  Photography, Understanding, World

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

  Edward Steichen

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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• Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Intellectual, Looks

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• Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

  Matt Hardy

  Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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• It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

  Paul Caponigro

  Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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• There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

  Robert Heinecken

  Photography, Differences, Photograph

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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, Photography

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• One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

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• The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Important, Matter

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• When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Hands, Cameras

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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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• The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Self, Expression

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• Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, People, Boss

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

  Robert Doisneau

  Movie, Photography, Directors

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Adam

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

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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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• 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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