Photography By Photographers Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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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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• 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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  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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  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 best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Photography, I Hate You

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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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• 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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  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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• Only photograph what you love.

  Tim Walker

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  Tim Walker (2008). “Pictures”, p.28, teNeues

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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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• 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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• 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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• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

  August Sander

  Inspirational, Photography, Shadow

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• All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Photographer, Enough

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• I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Photographer, Great Photography

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

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• I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

  Trent Parke

  Photography, Light, Forever

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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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• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Eye

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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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• A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Facts, Portraits

  "ART; In the Portrait Game, the Photographer Wins" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. March 13, 1994.

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