Photographer Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- 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… — David Bailey
- Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. — David Bailey
- I never set out to be a photographer. — David Bailey
- The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist'… — 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
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — 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
- Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. — Ansel Adams
- Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — 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
- Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. — 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