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Quotes from Famous Photographers
- “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
— Destin Sparks - “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
— Ansel Adams - “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt - “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
Ansel Adams - “Only photograph what you love.”
Tim Walker - “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
Abraham Lincoln - “If your pictures are not good enough you are not close enough.”
Robert Capa - “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
Ansel Adams -
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
Robert Frank -
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
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Andy Warhol
- “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
Destin Sparks - “I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
Leon Levinstein - “Photography is the beauty of life captured.”
Tara Chisolm - “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
Eudora Welty - A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Ansel Adams - Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams - Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.
Paul Strand - Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.
Henri Cartier-Bresson - I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.
Steve McCurry - The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
Edward Weston - Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
- There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
- 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.