Best Photography Lines
1737 Photography quotes by 530 unique authors
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Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging,…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
— David LaChapelle
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Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at…
— Elliott Erwitt
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My first thought is always of light.
— Galen Rowell
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The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally…
— Helmut Newton
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It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
— Paul Strand
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases…
— Francis Galton
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
— W. Eugene Smith
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One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied…
— Paul Outerbridge
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
— Cornell Capa
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Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
— Sam Abell
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You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have…
— William Albert Allard
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
— Garry Winogrand
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I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
— Ruth Bernhard
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I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.
— Mathew Brady
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
— Garry Winogrand
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Life is once. Forever.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
— Robert Heinecken
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The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
— Anne Geddes
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I…
— Dorothea Lange
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If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not…
— Robert Adams
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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
— Edward Weston
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I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
— Richard Avedon
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We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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