Photography Quotes - Page 13

• Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

  Robert Heinecken

  Differences, World, Turns

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• The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Organization, Expression, Giving

  "Cartier-Bresson's classic is back - but his Decisive Moment has passed" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2014.

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• A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Two, Add, Three

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

  Ken Rockwell

  Eye, Artist, Skills

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• Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Forever, Missing, Gone

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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  Sam Abell

  Inspirational, Photographer, Lit

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• When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Soul, Faces, Behinds

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• With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Zero, Energy, Goes On

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

  Richard Avedon

  Photographer, Made, Knows

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

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• Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

  Ansel Adams

  Expression, Imagination, Quality

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• Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Important, Leica, Aspect

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• A picture is like a prayer.

  Harry Callahan

  Prayer, Photographer

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• For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Law, Average

  Gore Vidal (1982). “The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)”, Random House Inc

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• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  War, Editing, Two

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

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• Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.

  Nikolay Semyonov

  Believe, Perfect, Cameras

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• As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

  Wanda Koop

  Form, Notes, Painter

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• The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

  Susan Sontag

  Photographer, Preserves

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.58, Macmillan

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• A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Taken, Photographer, Force

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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

  Cutting, Giving, Messages

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• 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

  World, May, Photographer

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• And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

  Richard Avedon

  Wake Up, Essentials, Photographer

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• Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Leica, Great Photography, Interest

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

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Art, Black And White

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

  Robert Capa

  Photographer, Good Enough, Photojournalism

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

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• One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Insightful, Photographer

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