Best Photography Thoughts
1737 Photography quotes by 530 unique authors
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As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more…
— Galen Rowell
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The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
— Eliot Porter
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When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.
— Theodore Levitt
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The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
— Edward Weston
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Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
— Bill Brandt
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
— Ansel Adams
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Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.
— Unknown Author
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
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Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human…
— Eliot Porter
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Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
— Arnold Newman
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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
— Paul Strand
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
— Garry Winogrand
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Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
— Andre Bazin
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Photography must be integrated with the story.
— James Wong Howe
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The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
— Alberto Korda
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
— Edward Weston
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
— Minor White
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I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.
— Alfred Stieglitz
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