Street Photography Quotes

• 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, Photography, Four

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• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

  Robert Doisneau

  Movie, Photography, Directors

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

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

  Helen Levitt

  Photography, Inspirational Photography, Inarticulate

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• Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Mistake, Emotion

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• To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

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• There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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• If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

  Bruce Gilden

  Photography, Smell, Streets

  FaceBook post by Bruce Gilden from Oct 18, 2012

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• Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Forever, Missing

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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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• Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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• Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Twelve

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

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• It's neither our culture nor our race which
  interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

  Thomas Leuthard

  Photography, Race, Culture

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• The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Details, Littles

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Photographer, Enough

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• A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Knowing, Photographer

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

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• I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

  Bruce Gilden

  Inspirational, Photography, Mean

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Eye, Expression

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  You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

  Ansel Adams

  Music, Photography, Art

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• Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

  William Klein

  Inspirational, Photography, Being Yourself

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• All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, World, Technique

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