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.
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Wynn Bullock Quotes
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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James Lalropui Keivom Quotes
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
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Sam Abbel Quotes
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.
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Louis Fabian Bachrach Quotes
The camera can photograph thought.
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Dirk Bogarde Quotes
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
A photograph is usually looked at, seldom looked into.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
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Robert Adams Quotes
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."
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John Loengard Quotes
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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Edward Steichen Quotes
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.
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Author Unknown Quotes
There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is!
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DeGriff Quotes
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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Harold Evans Quotes
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.
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William Albert Allard Quotes
Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
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.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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Richard Avedon Quotes
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Henri Cartier Bresson Quotes
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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W. Eugene Smith Quotes
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.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Ansel Adams Quotes
Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
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Ruth Bernhard Quotes
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
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Lewis Hine Quotes
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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Richard Avedon Quotes
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.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes
A photograph is memory in the raw.
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Carrie Latet Quotes
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Ansel Adams Quotes