Photography Quotes - Page 4

• A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

  Sam Haskins

  New York, Party, Love You

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• I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Two, Doe

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Art, Science

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

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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

  Reality, Joy, Intellectual

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Running, Snapshots, Photographer

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Self, Expression, Tradition

  László Moholy-Nagy, Andreas Haus (1980). “Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms”, Pantheon

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  Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspiring, Twenties, Cinema

  "Fictional character: Bruno Forestier". "Le petit soldat", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

  Diane Arbus

  Important, Photographer, Subjects

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

  Helmut Newton

  Intellectual, Looks, Photographer

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Eye, Black And White, Insightful

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

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• We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

  Ansel Adams

  Photographer, Remember, Possibility

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• Light makes photography. Embrace light.

  George Eastman

  Light, Photographer, Embrace

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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, Things In Life, Photographer

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

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• No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

  Ken Rockwell

  Cameras, Needs, Want

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• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Creativity, Light

  Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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• Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Light, Photographer, Photograph

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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, Creativity, Silence

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

  Arnold Newman

  Real, World, Illusion

  Arnold Newman, Bruce Weber (1988). “Arnold Newman in Florida”, David R Godine Pub

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• Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

  Lisette Model

  Art, Photographer, Hardest

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• Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Art, Used, Copies

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• Of course it's all luck.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Luck, Photographer, Courses

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  A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

  Ansel Adams

  Needs, Photographer, Photograph

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  Fay Godwin

  Technique, Photographer

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• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

  Garry Winogrand

  Inspiring, Four, Facts

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