Photography By Photographers Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Twelve

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

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• If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Cutting, Giving

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• I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

  Bruce Gilden

  Inspirational, Photography, Mean

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• Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

  Tony Benn

  Inspirational, Photography, Things In Life

  "99 Things to Do between Here and Heaven" by Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone, (p. 65), June 2, 2009.

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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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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