quotes
'It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours'
James Lalropui Keivom
'Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it'
walter sickert
'I am surprised at how subtly responsive photography is to the state of the mind of a photographer. There is an old Arab saying, “The apparent is the bridge to the real.” All I have to work with as a photographer are surfaces. The surface of a thing is an indication of deeper forces'
stephen shore
'I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn'
Pablo Picasso
'A good photograph is knowing where to stand'
ansel adams
'Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop'
Ansel Adams
'A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know'
Diane Arbus
'Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like'
David Alan Harvey
'Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing'
Marcel Duchamp
'Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph'
Robert Heinecken
'Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow'
Imogen Cunningham
'If you're not your own severest critic, you're your own worst enemy'
Jay Maisel
'The difference bewteen the recorder photographer... and the artist photographer... is that the artist will, by experience and learning... force the camera to paint the imagination...the emotion... the concept and the intent... rather than faithfully and truthfully reproduce a record'
Anonymous
'Fishing, like photography, is an art that calls forth intelligence, concentration, and delicacy'
stephen shaw
'if I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time'
Robert Doisneau
'When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence' Ansel Adams
'nothing but the wild rain on this bleak hut, and solitude, and me, rain on the lens continues to be a favourite filter'
Edward Thomas
'Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst'
Henri Cartier-Bresson
'Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic'
Edward Weston
'You cannot depend upon your eyes when your imagination is out of focus'
Mark Twain
'There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth'
Richard Avedon
'Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good'
Garry Winogrand
'To see something spectacular and recognize it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility – that is what I am interested in'
Stephen Shore
'I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I haven't seen before'
Robert Mapplethorpe
'Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them'
Elliott Erwitt
'the inner, what is it if not the intensified sky'
Rainer Maria Rilke
'Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them'
Elliott Erwitt
'We see with memory, which is why none of us sees the same thing, even when we're looking at the same thing'
David Hockney
'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes'
Marcel Proust
'Of course it’s all luck'
Henri Cartier-Bresson
'It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours'
James Lalropui Keivom
'Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it'
walter sickert
'I am surprised at how subtly responsive photography is to the state of the mind of a photographer. There is an old Arab saying, “The apparent is the bridge to the real.” All I have to work with as a photographer are surfaces. The surface of a thing is an indication of deeper forces'
stephen shore
'I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn'
Pablo Picasso
'A good photograph is knowing where to stand'
ansel adams
'Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop'
Ansel Adams
'A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know'
Diane Arbus
'Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like'
David Alan Harvey
'Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing'
Marcel Duchamp
'Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph'
Robert Heinecken
'Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow'
Imogen Cunningham
'If you're not your own severest critic, you're your own worst enemy'
Jay Maisel
'The difference bewteen the recorder photographer... and the artist photographer... is that the artist will, by experience and learning... force the camera to paint the imagination...the emotion... the concept and the intent... rather than faithfully and truthfully reproduce a record'
Anonymous
'Fishing, like photography, is an art that calls forth intelligence, concentration, and delicacy'
stephen shaw
'if I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time'
Robert Doisneau
'When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence' Ansel Adams
'nothing but the wild rain on this bleak hut, and solitude, and me, rain on the lens continues to be a favourite filter'
Edward Thomas
'Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst'
Henri Cartier-Bresson
'Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic'
Edward Weston
'You cannot depend upon your eyes when your imagination is out of focus'
Mark Twain
'There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth'
Richard Avedon
'Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good'
Garry Winogrand
'To see something spectacular and recognize it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility – that is what I am interested in'
Stephen Shore
'I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I haven't seen before'
Robert Mapplethorpe
'Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them'
Elliott Erwitt
'the inner, what is it if not the intensified sky'
Rainer Maria Rilke
'Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them'
Elliott Erwitt
'We see with memory, which is why none of us sees the same thing, even when we're looking at the same thing'
David Hockney
'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes'
Marcel Proust
'Of course it’s all luck'
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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