Photography Quotes - Page 6

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Creativity, People

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  Harry Callahan

  Adventure, People, Feelings

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• A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Painting, Footprint

  New York Review of Books 23 June 1977

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• The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  Walker Evans

  Eye, Feelings, Photographer

  Lesley K. Baier, Walker Evans, Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, Mass.) (1977). “Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 16 November, 1977-23 January, 1978”

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• Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.

  Elliott Erwitt

  School, Simple, Practice

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• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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• A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

  Susan Sontag

  Travel, Experience, Way

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  Galen Rowell

  Powerful, Eye, Differences

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• It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

  Susan Sontag

  Interesting, Mysterious, Relevant

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.124, Macmillan

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• When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Cameras, Lenses

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• Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

  Spike Lee

  Directors, Looks, Costumes

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• In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.

  Brassai

  Beautiful, May, Excitement

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• A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.

  Peter Doig

  Reality, Feet, Giving

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• A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

  John Szarkowski

  Ideas, Interesting, Cameras

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• Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

  Ansel Adams

  Mistake, Care, Steps

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• The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

  Gordon Parks

  Important, Matter, Photographer

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• I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

  Richard Avedon

  Art, Thinking, Encounters

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• Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.

  Ralph Gibson

  Eye, Media, Imagination

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• A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

  Roland Barthes

  Invisible, Photograph

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• My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

  Richard Avedon

  People, Cameras, Portraits

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

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• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

  Harold Evans

  Lying, Cameras, Accessories

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

  Walker Evans

  Art, Leaving, Brain

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• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

  Ansel Adams

  Expression, Photographer, Feels

  "A Personal Credo". American Annual of Photography, Vol. 58, 1944.

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• Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

  Christopher Anderson

  Interesting, Feelings, Emotion

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• We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Memories, Leica, Shooting

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