Photography Quotes
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier Bresson
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.
Unknown
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
John Berger
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.
Wynn Bullock
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be
Duane Michals
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
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
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
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness
Paul Strand
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
score, and the print the performance
Ansel Adams
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
