Quotes by Photographers - Page 3

Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott
Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.
Dara McGrath
A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.
David duChemin
There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.
Joel Sartore
My pictures are about making people realize we've got to protect those who can't speak for themselves.
Michael "Nick" Nichols
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
Annie Leibovitz
The camera basically is a license to explore.
Jerry N. Uelsmann
If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.
Matthew Knisely
The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.
Matthew Knisely
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Matthew Knisely
Be in love with the moments of your life.
Matthew Knisely
The greatest moments are right in front of you.
Matthew Knisely
You see, i f you have t rue photographic vision, you have clar i ty and i f you haveclarity, you don't need to explain or defend your images.Clar i ty is about what emot ions or feel ings the image is t rying to evoke, not the fact sbehind the image.Photographic clar i ty is about passion of purpose. I t 's about a single-minded desi reto protect a memory. I t 's about story tel l ing wi th a camera that 's so power ful , nowords are necessary.
Scott Bourne
There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was
Robert Frank
Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou.
Scott Bourne
To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to giveyoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning orlosing. Just DO.
Scott Bourne
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Helmut Newton
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.
Paul Chaplo
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thoughts to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together. There is also a period when his brain "forgets," and his subconscious works on classifying his thoughts. But for photographers, what has gone is gone forever.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Matthew Knisely
Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.
Matthew Knisely
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath, and the picture is admired beyond measure. The photographer finds the same pretty girl, he dresses her up and photographs her, and calls her Juliet, but somehow it is no good – it is still Miss Wilkins, the model. It is too true to be Juliet.George Bernard ShawWilson’s Photographic Magazine, LVI, 1909
John Szarkowski
Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.
Matthew Knisely
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
Matthew Knisely
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.
Arnold Newman
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Yousuf Karsh
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
Irving Penn
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.
Jay Maisel
Photography is not something you retire from.
Annie Leibovitz
As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.
Annie Leibovitz
Photographers are the history makers, because every picture is a moment which gone fore ever and can not be re shoot.”― Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
As Marcel Proust understood, memory is not exclusively or even predominantly visual. It is synesthetic, a combination and even a confusion of the senses that no simple image can reach or encapsulate. A photograph can act as a spur to memory, it can yield treasures, like looking under your bed and finding the baseball card you were certain you lost. But an image stands mute before the inexpressible delicacy, horror, humor, and associative complexity of our experience.
Will Steacy
Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.
Marius Vieth
Photography is the story I fail to put into words.
Destin Sparks
We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal
Sebastião Salgado
I take same picture twice, First with my heart then camera.
Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
My best photo will be the last one, that I want to be taken.
Biju Karakkonam
what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.
Diane Arbus
— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is the art of making memories tangible.
Destin Sparks
When I make a picture, I make love.
Alfred Stieglitz
You are responsible for every element within the frame.
David duChemin
As long as we’re alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we’ll have something to say.
David duChemin
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A photograph can communicate a couple things— and sometimes only one thing—very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.
David duChemin
The horizon is the fine line between golden hour and blue hour.
Destin Sparks
A photograph is a biography of a moment.
Art Shay
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
Eadweard Muybridge
I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.
Diane Arbus
In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West of the 98TH Meridian - where it sometimes rain and it sometimes doesn’t – towns, like weeds, spring up when it rains, dry up when it stops. But in a dry climate, the husk of the plant remains. The stranger might find, as if preserved in amber, something of the green life that was once lived there, and the ghosts of men who have gone on to a better place. The withered towns are empty, but not uninhabited. Faces sometimes peer out from the broken windows, or whisper from the sagging balconies, as if this place – now that is dead – had come to life. As if empty it is forever occupied. Reproduced in THE BORSCHT BELT from The Works of Love by Wright Morris by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1949, 1951 by Wright Morris.
Marisa Scheinfeld
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
Dorothea Lange
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Jay Maisel always says to bring your camera, ‘cause it’s tough to take a picture without it. Pursuant to the above aforementioned piece of the rule book, subset three, clause A, paragraph four would be…use the camera.Put it to your eye. You never know. There are lots of reasons, some of them even good, to just leave it on your shoulder or in your bag. Wrong lens. Wrong light. Aaahhh, it’s not that great, what am I gonna do with it anyway? I’ll have to put my coffee down. I’ll just delete it later, why bother? Lots of reasons not to take the dive into the eyepiece and once again try to sort out the world into an effective rectangle.It’s almost always worth it to take a look.
Joe McNally
If you can see it, you can shoot it.
Ted Grant
I don't trust words. I trust pictures.
Gilles Peress