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Photographer Quotes by Elliott Erwitt
- There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered…
- As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never…
- The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then…
- You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
- Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
- Ill always be an amateur photographer.
- The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how…
- I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
- If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
- I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
- I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently…
- To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with…
- Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed…
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- 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
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- 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