1252 quotes by photographers for you to enjoy

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. Annie Leibovitz

Say Photograph Someone Like Know Want Anyone Them Really Means

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

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. Edward Steichen

Art Worth Else Consideration Clicks Done Anything Anything Else Afterwards Shutter

What do you hang on the walls of your mind? Eve Arnold

You Brainy Walls Mind Hang Your

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. Yousuf Karsh

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Alfred Stieglitz

Photography Reality More Becomes Real Than Subtle

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Ansel Adams

Art Creative Photography Communication Medium More Factual Ideas Than

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Ansel Adams

Man Confidence Creative Emotions Men Build Other Spirit Perceive Perceptions Reveal Encouraged Dictate Themselves Produce Create Should Creative Spirit Right

Photography helps people to see. Berenice Abbott

Photography People See Helps

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange

Learning Tool See Without How Camera

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. Yousuf Karsh

Heart Mind Before Think True Opening Look Camera Lens Shutter

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. David Bailey

You Because Anything Really Copy

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. David LaChapelle

Strong Word Language Believe Visual Written Written Word Should

I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use. Don McCullin

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. Peter Lindbergh

You Photography Yourself World Opportunity Luck Everything Way Say About Something Gives Part Around Discover Than Sensibility Little Might Much Use Your Who Larger

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. Alfred Stieglitz

Relatives Relative Everything Absolute Except

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Ansel Adams

Negative Ways Composer Performance Print Score Subtle Comparable Each Differs

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. David LaChapelle

Grief Mother Losing Nothing More Loss Than Child

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange

People See Instrument Without How Camera Teaches

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