Photography Quotes - Page 8

• ...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Eye, People, Giving

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• Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Hunters, Next, Photographer

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• I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.

  Keith Shackleton

  Reality, Pitfalls, Copying

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• Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

  Edward Weston

  Hard Work, Matter, Corny

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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  I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Cute, Positive

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• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Man Ray

  Inspiration, Technique, Looks

  "Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons (p. 80), 1966.

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• Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Today, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.25, Macmillan

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• There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

  Robert Heinecken

  Differences, Photographer, Photograph

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• If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photographer, Ifs

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

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• I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Cameras, Literature

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.65, Penguin

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• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

  Ansel Adams

  Powerful, Communication, Expression

  Ansel Adams, Edwin Herbert Land (1974). “Singular images”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

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• The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Vocation, Highest

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Sharpness, Bourgeois, Concepts

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• Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

  Minor White

  Attention, Photographer, Stills

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• It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Art, Light, Strange

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• Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

  Berenice Abbott

  Past, Photographer, Subjects

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• The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

  Orson Welles

  Cameras, World, Messages

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• No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

  John Ruskin

  Done, Literature, Disease

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.

  Berenice Abbott

  Exercise, Simple, Symphony

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• Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

  Eliot Porter

  Taken, People, Looks

  "Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics". Book by Rebecca Solnit, p. 235, 2007.

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creativity, Yellow

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• Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

  Lisette Model

  Cameras, Instruments, Knows

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• Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

  Bill Brandt

  Sports

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• I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.

  Anne Geddes

  Heart, Emotional, Thinking

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• However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Real, Fake

  "Eerie yet gorgeous scenes make taxidermy spring to life" by Alyssa Coppelman, www.wired.com. January 13, 2015.

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