Photographer Quotes:
- “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.”
- Alfred Stieglitz - “When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes.
When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!”
- Ted Grant - Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
– Anonymous - "You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
- Ansel Adams - “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”
- Ansel Adams - “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
- Ansel Adams - “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
- Ansel Adams - “Photography helps people to see.”
- Berenice Abbott - “Photography is a love affair with life.”
- Burk Uzzle - “A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
- Dorothea Lange - “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
- Elliott Erwitt - “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 - “I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.”
- Ernst Haas - “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson - “Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
- Imogen Cunningham - “Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”
- Joe McNally - “It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
- Paul Caponigro - “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”
- Robert Capa - “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
- Robert Frank - “The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.”
- Robert Mapplethorpe - “Only photograph what you love.”
- Tim Walker - “ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
– Matt Hardy - “ You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper"
- William Albert Allard - “ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.
- – Anonymous
- “Photography 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 - “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”
- Gilles Peress - “Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
- – Anonymous
- “Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
- David Alan Harvey - “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
- Andy Warhol - “You may not be the perfect photographer for everyone. But for someone you are the perfect photographer.”
– Anonymous - “Photography helps people to see.”
- Berenice Abbott - There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- Ansel Adams - There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
- Ansel Adams - The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
- Edward Weston - Photography is the art of frozen time… the ability to store emotion and feelings within a frame.
- Meshack Otieno - Photography 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 - Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited
- Ben Shahn - Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
- George Eastman - It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary
- David Bailey - It doesn’t matter if you’re photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you’re photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically.
- Albert Watson