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Photographer Quotes by Alexey Brodovitch
- When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must…
- The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in…
- It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures…
- Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration…
- Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at…
- It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed…
- What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression…
- The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive…
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- 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… — 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… — 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