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Photographer Quotes by Robert Adams
- If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not…
- When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where…
- Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them…
- The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This…
- Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
- C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to…
- I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it…
- Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down…
- The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
- Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all?…
- The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If…
- Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better. His pictures convince…
- Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or…
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- 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