1252 quotes by photographers for you to enjoy

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. Duane Michals

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. Edward Steichen

Nature Light Plants Trees Magician Had Stems Knew Toward Reached Course Real Coming Up Itself Branches Realize Roots Bark

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian. Linda McCartney

World Walls Would Would-Be Had Vegetarian Glass Whole Slaughterhouses

Reality is always extraordinary. Mary Ellen Mark

Reality Extraordinary Always

I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence. Mary Ellen Mark

Best People Society Side Find More More Than Anything Had Feel Edges Always Existence Affinity Than Human Maybe Just Want Anything Acknowledge Interested Breaks Them Who

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. Richard Avedon

People Power Ambition Locked Hiding Running Within Unhappiness Reputations Beliefs

The pictures are there, and you just take them. Robert Capa

You Take Pictures Just Them

War is the greatest failure of mankind. Aaron Huey

War Failure Greatest Mankind

The most beautiful girl in the room not only gets the guy, she lands the job, gets better service at a restaurant, rises through the social ranks before her friends. Doors open for the beautiful woman that may not for a female who is twice as smart but half as beautiful. Amanda de Cadenet

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In marriage, you sacrifice the adrenaline rush of seeing someone new for the comfort of being with someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway. Amanda de Cadenet

You Marriage Sacrifice Everything Rush Seeing About Someone Adrenaline New Comfort Knows Being Anyway Loves Who

I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way. Amanda de Cadenet

Life Age Women To Be Honest Older Think Once Way Tend Look Learn Because Get Want Interested Them Really Certain Certain Age Certain Way Lived Dispose Older Women Honest

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. Annie Leibovitz

You Looking Hiding Like Makes Camera Forget Just Just Looking Much

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. Annie Leibovitz

Nature Wish Energy Living Photographed Magnificence Could Emotion Place Land

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen. Annie Leibovitz

Advice Think Give Could Self She Because Listen Younger

My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living. Annie Leibovitz

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Ansel Adams

Art Great Nature History Man Science Experience World Aggressive Difficult Great Art Worlds Our Define Moods Spirit Only Perceptive Beyond Qualities Equally Revelations Them Depths Grasp

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. Ansel Adams

Truth World Heroic Comprehend Struggles Myths Creeds

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Bill Brandt

Time Strange People World Job First Country Must Photographer See Something More He Part Most Looks Him First Time Than Child Intensely Who Traveler Keep

I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound. Brandon Stanton

People World Beginning Interview Say Favorite Favorite People Neither Alternate Because Always Ends Them Perspectives Less Who Lives Profound Two

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