Best Photography Quotes
1737 Photography quotes by 530 unique authors
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good…
— Ansel Adams
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in…
— Ansel Adams
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the…
— Ansel Adams
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the…
— Ansel Adams
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking…
— Ansel Adams
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
— Syd Barrett
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent…
— Drew Barrymore
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
— Roland Barthes
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I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
— Robert Adams
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I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
— Berenice Abbott
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
— Berenice Abbott
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Photography helps people to see.
— Berenice Abbott
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
— Berenice Abbott
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be…
— Berenice Abbott
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
— Walter Benjamin
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
— Tony Benn
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
— John Berger
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been…
— John Berger
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You can observe a lot by just watching.
— Yogi Berra
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
— William Blake
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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the…
— Bill Brandt
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on…
— Bill Brandt
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