Photography Quotes
To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams
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
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
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
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
Ken Rockwell
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead
The photographic image ... is a message without a code.
Roland Barthes
On Photography "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption
Susan Sontag
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
AndrÈ 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
Ansel Adams
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...
Ansel Adams
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!
Ansel Adams
