Photography Quotes - Page 11

• Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

  Herb Ritts

  Art, Blood, Culture

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• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  Duane Michals

  Insightful, Nikon, Photographer

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• In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

  Emile Zola

  Views, Photograph, Claims

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• Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Communication, Ideas

  Ansel Adams (1962). “Basic Photo: Artificial-light photography”

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• The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Reality, Want, Photographer

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• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

  Edward Steichen

  Cameras, Photographer, Simplest

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

  August Sander

  Inspirational, Shadow, Photographer

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• The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

  Anne Geddes

  Strength, Impact, Years

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• I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.

  William Eggleston

  Struggle, Artist, Ideas

  "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.

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• When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.

  Christophe Agou

  Knowing, People, Cameras

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• The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

  Paul Auster

  Lying, Stories, Records

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

  Robert Frank

  Black And White, Color, Forever

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

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• The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Skins, Trying, Cameras

  "Philosophers set in stone: Steve Pyke's piercing portraits" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photographer, Remember, Great Things

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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  You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

  William Albert Allard

  Tools, Photographer, Push Yourself

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

  Richard Avedon

  Inspirational, Cameras, Photographer

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

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• In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, America, Records

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

  Edward Steichen

  Art, Pieces, Paper

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

  Eliot Porter

  Stories, Tiny, Photographer

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• If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

  Eddie Adams

  Laughter, Rip, Heart

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• Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Art, Japan, Breaking Rules

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• You can observe a lot by just watching.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Yankees, Vision

  Quoted in Dick Schaap and Mort Gerberg's Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor Reflections (p. 185)

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• If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

  Ruth Bernhard

  Important, Buttons, Photographer

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• Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

  Art Wolfe

  Art, Stopping, Matter

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

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Hands, Cameras, Photographer

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