Photography Quotes

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

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

  Marc Riboud

  Savoring

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• Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

  Harry Callahan

  Talking, Done, Photographer

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• It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

  Harry Callahan

  People, Matter, Able

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• There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

  Ernst Haas

  Things In Life, Two, Ordinary

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• Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

  Ernst Haas

  Differences, Cameras, Records

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• You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

  Ernst Haas

  Thinking, Cameras, Feels

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• Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

  Ernst Haas

  Transformation, Reproduction

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• I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.

  Stan Brakhage

  Art, Struggle, Mean

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• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Voice, Groups, Photographer

  W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

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

  Bruno Barbey

  Understanding, World, Photographer

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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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• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Believe, Reality

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

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Giving, Leica, Photographer

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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

  Creativity, Keys, Light

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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

  Saws, Photographer, Shake It Up

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• I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

  Irving Penn

  Art, Long, Looks

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• Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

  Garry Winogrand

  Looks, Photographer

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• Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Art, Age, Attention

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• A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

  Garry Winogrand

  Art, Creativity, Space

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• I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Taken, Photographer

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• Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Home, Cameras, Photographer

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• I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

  Ernst Haas

  Creativity, Shooting, Photographer

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

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Night, Kitchen

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

  Berenice Abbott

  Fall, Photographer, Happened

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