Quotes on photography
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
Bullock, Wynn
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.
Unknown, Author
It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.
Keivom, James Lalropui
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
Abbel, Sam
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Adams, Ansel
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Adams, Ansel
The camera can photograph thought.
Bogarde, Dirk
A photograph is usually looked at, seldom looked into.
Adams, Ansel
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
Adams, Robert
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Adams, Ansel
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.
Unknown, Author
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
Allard, William Albert
Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
Unknown, Author
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Adams, Ansel
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Adams, Ansel
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Adams, Ansel
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Bresson, Henri Cartier
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Adams, Ansel
I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it.
Unknown, Author
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
Adams, Ansel
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
Hine, Lewis
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.
Unknown, Author
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.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
A photograph is memory in the raw.
Latet, Carrie
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Adams, Ansel