Photography Quotes & Sayings

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~ Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. ~

Lisette Model

~ I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. ~

Pablo Picasso

~ It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less magination 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

~ 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

~ 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

~ 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 ~

Henri Cartier-Bresson

~ A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~

John Loengard

~ 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

~ Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be ~

Duane Michals

~ Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ~

Dorothea Lange

~ Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. ~

W. Eugene Smith

~ Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. ~

Lewis Carroll

~ As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. ~

Sam Abell

~ Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ~

Arnold Newman

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

Ansel Adams

~ 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

~ Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ~

Berenice Abbott

~ Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ~

Sam Abell

~ Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ~

Ansel Adams

~ Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. ~

Gary Winogrand

~ Photography is my passion. ~

Alfred Stieglitz

~ Photography is my passion. ~

Alfred Stieglitz

~ There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration ~

Sadakichi Hartmann

~ The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. ~

Walker Evans

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

Edward Weston

~ On Photography "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption ~

Susan Sontag

~ When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself ~

Susan Sontag

~ Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! ~

Mark Twain

~ Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! ~

Mark Twain

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

Edward Weston

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