Photography Quotes & Sayings

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~ Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~

Tony Benn

~ Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ~

Edward Steichen

~ 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 is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything ~

Aaron Siskind

~ Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever . . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. ~

Aaron Siskind

~ Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. ~

Don McCullin

~ Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications,offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ~

Ansel Adams

~ 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. ~

Louis Fabian Bachrach

~ The negative is the equivalent of the composer'sìPhotography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything ~

Aaron Siskind

~ 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

~ Photography is truth. ~

Jean-Luc Godard

~ Photography is truth. ~

Jean-Luc Godard

~ Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true ~

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

~ Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. ~

Ansel Adams

~ Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees ~

Paul Strand

~ Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history ~

Cornell Capa

~ I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. ~

Harry Callahan

~ Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. ~

Anon

~ Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ~

Berenice Abbott

~ Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite. ~

John Szarkowski

~ Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a pene- trating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity. ~

Berenice Abbott

~ I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. ~

Ansel Adams

~ Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual. ~

Nickolas Muray

~ Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens ~

Karl Heiner

~ I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. ~

Harry Callahan

~ The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ~

Edward Steichen

~ Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. ~

Edward Weston

~ When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ~

Vicki Goldberg

~ I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. ~

Berenice Abbott

~ It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary. ~

David Bailey

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