Best Photography Words
1737 Photography quotes by 530 unique authors
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're…
— Diane Arbus
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
— Diane Arbus
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first…
— Diane Arbus
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My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
— Diane Arbus
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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
— Diane Arbus
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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
— Diane Arbus
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
— Diane Arbus
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The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
— Diane Arbus
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
— August Sander
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent,…
— Harry Callahan
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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even…
— Unknown Author
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Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
— David Alan Harvey
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When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
— Ted Grant
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To…
— Harry Callahan
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it,…
— James Agee
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
— Arnold Newman
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
— Sam Abell
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Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
— Edward Steichen
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Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
— Lewis Carroll
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
— Duane Michals
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The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a…
— Arnold Newman
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