Photographer Quotes - Page 8

• It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, World, May

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• I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Dream, Eye

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• Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

  Conrad Hall

  Photography, Interesting, Contrast

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• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Photography, Men, Secret

  Yousuf Karsh, David Travis (2009). “Regarding Heroes”, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Hate

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• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Magic, Moments

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• Photography is truth.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Photography

  Jean Luc Godard (1967). “Le Petit soldat: screenplay”

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• Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Night

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• Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Character

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• I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Inspirational, Photography, Angle

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• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Feet, World

  Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”

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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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• When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

  Ted Grant

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Decision

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• I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Photography, Art, Important

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• Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.

  Ralph Steiner

  Photography, Creativity, Simple

  Ralph Steiner (1978). “A point of view”, Wesleyan

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• A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

  Ernst Haas

  Beautiful, Photography, Creativity

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• When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, People, Looks

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

  Linda McCartney

  Inspirational, Photography, Moving

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• You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

  Joan Miro

  Inspirational, Photography, Thinking

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• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Art, Desire

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• Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Technology, Important

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• Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Eye, Media

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• You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Giving, Leica

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• Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Stories, Tiny

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