Photography Quotes

The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.
Ernst Haas

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.
Gene McSweeney

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.
Gene McSweeney

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
Ken Rockwell

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
Ken Rockwel

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

The photographic image ... is a message without a code.

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

To visualize an image in whole or in part is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final prin
AndrČ Bazin

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...

I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer

A good photograph is knowing where to stand

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty

The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, where the mental picture is spiritual and eternal.
Robert Capa

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures
Paul Simon

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

As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time
Henry David Thoureau







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