Quotes by Photographers

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. Annie Leibovitz
Love Me Think Everyone Stay About Something Taking Pictures Learned Talking Very Did Which Lennon Straightforward Whole Helps Actually Career
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank. Annie Leibovitz
Photography Money First Frank Photograph Collection Some Small Bought Soon Robert Make Huge Very Huge Fan Fan Then Started
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved. Annie Leibovitz
Journalist Side Objective Point Take Step Boundary Like Supposed Liked Involved Because Opinion Realized Across View Imaginary
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do. Annie Leibovitz
Work You Important Those Photographers Look Most Most Important Thing Edit Understand Important Thing Doing Shoot Going Just Stop The Most Important Want Really Your Who Serious Thing
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color. Annie Leibovitz
Work Hope Sense Way Stayed Composition Color Through True
There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business. Annie Leibovitz
Work Crazy You Business People Pain Indiscreet Name Them Certainly Who
As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph. Annie Leibovitz
Work Way Kind Photograph Vanity Vanity Fair Vogue Fair Like Get Shoot Often Places Fantastic Things
I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.' Annie Leibovitz
Launch Stuff Him Led Which Apollo Tom Right
I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham. Annie Leibovitz
Opportunity Blessed Birmingham Photograph Unbelievably Classroom Had Feel Her
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. Ansel Adams
Photography Natural World Medium Intuitive Through Observations May Intention Which Meaning Natural World Present Spectators
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. Ansel Adams
Negative Composer Performance Print Equivalent Score
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. Ansel Adams
Me People Old Looking Live Out Windows Seem Alley Sheds Dry Print Am Were Years Years Ago Walking Intensely Any Sixty In Print Again Turn Rooms Standing Workshops Plates Captured Aware Images
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. Ansel Adams
Remember Medium Possibilities Photograph Must No-One Put Just Just As Much Hold Much Full Ever
The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day. Arnold Newman
Day Every Day Light Thought Every Kind Must See Windows Through He Terms Him Houses Subject Which Places Century Works Lives
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. Arnold Newman
Photography Reality World Illusion Own Our Know Real Private Private World Which Create
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. Arnold Newman
Technology Photography Own Interpretation Must Visual Combined Ideas Equals Personal Hold Each Thing
I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top. Barret Oliver
You People Nothing Think Top Out Go Movie Many Spectacular Start
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. Berenice Abbott
Alone Photography Walk Other Medium Imitates Some Never Up Itself Grow Grow Up
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. Berenice Abbott
More Instrument Camera Image Preservation
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Berenice Abbott
Photography Past Once Photographed Only Part Becomes Subject Represent Present
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. Berenice Abbott
Positive Life Death Creative Photography Song Word Build Living Approach Out Give Rather Does Sings Subjective Very Than Mean Act Acted Initiate
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. Berenice Abbott
Me Word Challenge First Tried City See Objective Bouncing Ball Been Whether Street Things Portrait
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. Bill Brandt
Distinction Those Must Photographer Be Prepared Atmosphere Give Catch Subject Hold Which Lend Prepared Elements
It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment. Bill Brandt
Life Gift Own Temperament Seeing Vividly Something Individual Environment Exciting Clearly Around Intensity Them Right Innate
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. Bill Brandt
Work Admitting Whatever Sense Field Carried Embarrassment Photographers Would Feel Particular Most Within Without Wonder Them Produce Certain Publicly
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment. Bill Brandt
Experience Dark Light Photographer Only He Instinct Know Himself Knows Effect Subjects Wants Should Hard Grounded Enhanced Treatment Soft
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