Best Photography Qoutes
1737 Photography quotes by 530 unique authors
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The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.
— Brandon Stanton
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Of course it's all luck.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
— Bill Brandt
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Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the…
— Ralph Gibson
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop stars all my…
— Rankin
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
— Garry Winogrand
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Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
— Helen Levitt
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I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my…
— Lee Friedlander
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Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph
— Andre Kertesz
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
— William Klein
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I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
— Edward Weston
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Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
— Helmut Newton
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It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
— Sebastiao Salgado
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Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.
— Steve McCurry
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I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.
— Josef Koudelka
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I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk,…
— Alex Webb
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