Appeals Quote by Bill Brandt

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…

— Bill Brandt

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

— Bill Brandt

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would…

— Bill Brandt

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

The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a…

— Bill Brandt

It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his…

— Bill Brandt

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

— Bill Brandt

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much…

— Bill Brandt

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard…

— Bill Brandt

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is…

— Bill Brandt

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting…

— Bill Brandt

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…

— Bill Brandt