Most Famous Photography Quotes
Famous photography quotes that can help you gain inspiration in photography and make beautifulphotographs. Inspirational photography quotes.
Ansel Adams
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites
me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability
that comes from a lot of practice.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate,
I shall be content with silence.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Henri Cartier Bresson
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
Of course it's all luck.
There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is
independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which
captures the moment and its eternity.
Ernst Haas
The most important lens you have is your legs.
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But,
you have to SEE.
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to
express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into
it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Robert Doisneau
When I first started to take photos I’d …pull the black cloth over my head and feel totally secure
in the knowledge that no one could see me.
If you take photographs, don’t speak, don’t write, don’t analyse yourself, and don’t answer any
questions.
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
Salgado Sebastiao
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function
of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
..I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive
you,
they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all
things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group
in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them..
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers
the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can
allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
Bravo Alvarez
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers
choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own.
Those photographers are blind.
Radu Sigheti
What always fascinated me was the noise of the photo camera when you press the shutter
which should fix yours or your friends image on the background of some touristic subjects
and other wonders which you want to have as memories.
Edward Steichen
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
Minor White
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has
chosen.
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I
had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.'
So I do, regardless of how I feel.
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of
a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.