Photography Quotes - Page 9

• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Art, Creativity, Long

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• Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

  Berenice Abbott

  Growing Up, Walks, Mediums

  Nancy Tousley, Berenice Abbott, Glenbow Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (1982). “The Berenice Abbott portfolios”, Glenbow

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• I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean Girls, Awkward, Photographer

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• What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

  Chuck Close

  Differences, Doe, Looks

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• To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

  John Szarkowski

  Essence, Crafts, Photographer

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• But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Leica, Photographer, Conscious

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• I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

  Diane Arbus

  Naughty, Favorites Things, Firsts

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• Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Men, Records, Photographer

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• One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

  Diane Arbus

  Dog, Lying, Mud

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• It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Funny, Shoes, Ironic

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• Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens.

  Rondal Partridge

  Lenses, Needs, Want

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• Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

  Raghu Rai

  Learning, Skills, Giving

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• My wife convinced me to try doing the restorations digitally. I thought I could learn the photo editing software over the Thanksgiving weekend. It took me until May of the next year before I sold anything I did with it.

  Donald Lambert

  Weekend, Years, Editing Software

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• What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

  Diane Arbus

  Tragedy, Skins, Trying

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• Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Silence, Records, Speech

  "Life of Pitt" by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1891.

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• When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

  Ted Grant

  Black And White, Color, Clothes

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• Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Inspiring, Photographer, Moments

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• I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Insightful, Photographer, Helping

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• The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

  Edward Weston

  Eye, Cameras, Why Not

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

  Arnold Newman

  Technology, Ideas, Interpretation

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• I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

  Ken Burns

  Drama, People, Style

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• I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Teaching, Thinking, People

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• I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

  Edvard Munch

  Long, Heaven, No Fear

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• The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

  Edward Steichen

  Men, Earth, Complicated

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