Photography Quotes
Some of the most famous photography quotes by photography masters. Gain inspiration inphotography by reading some of the greatest quotes by famous photographers of all time.
- "There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the
viewer." -Ansel Adams-
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- "A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in
us, how would we ever recognize it ?" -Ernst Haas-
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- "Photography helps people to see." -Berenice Abbott-
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- "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-
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- "A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the
deepest sense, about what is being photographed." -Ansel Adams-
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- "Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon
owner." Author unknown
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- "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
-Ansel Adams-
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- "...words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully
than either alone." -William Albert Allard-
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- "With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first
time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression
as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past
experiences at will." -Ernst Haas-
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- "When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can
be no freshness of vision." -Edward Weston-
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- "Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action
is strong and stirring." -Berenice Abbott-
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- "You don't take a photograph, you make it." -Ansel Adams-
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- "No photographer is as good as the simplest camera." -Edward Steichen-
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- "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When
images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." -Ansel Adams-
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- "The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change
the photographer." Author unknown
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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-
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- "I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why
you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking
some of their soul." -Mary Ellen Mark-
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- "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-
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- "The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute
part of reality." -Henri Cartier Bresson-
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- "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-
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- "Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own
thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph
to them is an instrument of love and revelation." -Ansel Adams-
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- "If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
-Lewis Hine-
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- "Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the
horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our
hearts." -Minor White-
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- "Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans
have for a moment - this very moment - to stay." -Sam Abell-
