Quotes by Photographers

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams

Environmental Government Fight Own Our Horrifying Environment Save

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. David Bailey

Best Knowledge Knowledge Is Power Power Advice Reading Got Keep Ever

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton

Integrity Vision Will Daring Be Different Purpose Impractical Different Anything Ordinary Against Commonplace Assert Creatures Slaves Imaginative

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Ansel Adams

Good Photograph Knowing Where Stand

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. Ansel Adams

Photograph Seldom Looked

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

You Photography Little Things Long Feeling Everything Way Touching Remembers Caught Forever Forgotten After Loving Little Captured Film Things

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. Elliott Erwitt

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used. Rick Smolan

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions. Duane Michals

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. Annie Leibovitz

Work Nature You Yourself Strong Light Dance Weather Easy Takes Powerful Within Becomes Essence Place Your Capturing

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams

Silence Words Focus Become Photographs Shall Unclear Content Inadequate Images

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. Patrick Demarchelier

Dog Perfect He Camera Subject Aware Portrait Pose

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. Robert Mapplethorpe

You Better Photographer See More Pictures

The skull is nature's sculpture. David Bailey

Nature Sculpture Skull

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams

Words Photograph True Contained Nor Explained Need

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. Ansel Adams

God Sometimes Somebody Click Ready Get Just Places Shutter

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.' David LaChapelle

Work You Happy People Shopping Real Estate Say Purchase About Void Obsessive Like Know Make Real Going Owning Want Estate Them Gonna Who Fill Amount Things Buying

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. Diane Arbus

Love Understanding Combination Involves Misunderstanding Unfathomable Peculiar

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

Art Me You Photography Everything Way Finding See About Something Observation Ordinary Place Interesting Little Them Found Things

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams

Wisdom Time Experience Brainy Every Over Form Exploration Found Gathered

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams

Art People Believe Everybody Photographs Trusts Paintings