Photography Quotes - Page 18

• If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Want, Way, Sometimes

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• Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

  Andreas Feininger

  Light, Color, Excellence

  Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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• It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

  Robert Breault

  Garden, Please Me, Looks

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Records, Photographer

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

  Sam Abell

  Photographer, Deny, Appeals

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• Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Expression, Intuition

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• I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

  Gilles Peress

  Inspirational, Photographer, Don't Trust

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• You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

  Galen Rowell

  Inspirational, Nature, Sunset

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• I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

  Alec Soth

  Falling In Love, Wandering Around, Kind

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• When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Fall, Jumping

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• If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

  Martin Parr

  Moving On, Long, People

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• I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

  Hope Edelman

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

  Don McCullin

  Jobs, Cameras, Doe

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• If you love something, the work will be just fine.

  Herbert Matter

  Love, Work, Graphic Design

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• If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

  Steve McCurry

  Funny, Home, Discovery

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• The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

  Peter Lik

  Inspirational, Nature, Passion

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• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Our World, Understanding, Trying

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• I just get the will to do it.  I don’t plan a photograph in advance…  I work by impulse.  No philosophy.  No ideas.  Not by the head but by the eyes.  Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Philosophy, Inspiration, Creativity

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• Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Speaks Out, Ties, Together

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• Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Mistake, Ideas

  "It Began with Madame de Pompadour". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. July 2013.

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• The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

  Chase Jarvis

  Entrepreneur, Cameras, Directors

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• I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

  Sally Mann

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Hope, Loneliness

  "Creating Photographic Art - Exclusive Interview With Gregory Crewdson". Interview with David Geffin, fstoppers.com. October 11, 2014.

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• Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

  Stephen Shore

  Order, Photographer, Structure

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