Photograph Quotes

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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov… — David Bailey
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and… — David Bailey
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph… — Ansel Adams
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them… — Ansel Adams
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. — Ansel Adams
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… — Ansel Adams
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good… — Ansel Adams
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in… — Ansel Adams
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the… — Ansel Adams

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