Photography Quotes - Page 5

• The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Inspirational, Eye, Important

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• Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

  Robert Frank

  Matter, Photographer, Indifference

  "New York to Nova Scotia".

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• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  Walker Evans

  Art, Eye, Thoughtful

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• The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

  Diane Arbus

  Yoga, Knowledge, Feelings

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• Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

  Edward Weston

  Car, Yards, Photographer

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• Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

  Brassai

  Memories, Powerful, Unforgettable

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• Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Wedding, Events, Photographer

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• A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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

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• Virtue is not photogenic.

  Kirk Douglas

  Virtue, Photogenic

  Kirk Douglas (2000). “Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  Ansel Adams

  Disappointment, Landscape, Tests

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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• Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

  John Szarkowski

  Photographer, Contests, Presumption

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• What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Art, Forever

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• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  Ansel Adams

  Cameras, Photographer, Photograph

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• A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

  Sam Abell

  Mistake, Mad, World

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• The camera can photograph thought.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Cameras, Polemics, Photograph

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• I am at war with the obvious.

  William Eggleston

  War, Photographer, Obvious

  William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Hasselblad Center (1999). “William Eggleston”

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• With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

  Ernst Haas

  Past, Reality, Long

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• Photography is truth.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Photographer

  Jean Luc Godard (1967). “Le Petit soldat: screenplay”

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• A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

  Ansel Adams

  Photographer, Feels, Digital Photography

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• 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.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Essentials, Wake Up, Photographer

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• Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

  Rene Magritte

  Invisible, Visible

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• I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

  Raymond Depardon

  Thinking, Stronger, Found

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• There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Men, Cameras

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• Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

  Conrad Hall

  Interesting, Photographer, Contrast

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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