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Photography Quotes by Robert Adams
- No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
- If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not…
- There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as…
- When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where…
- Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them…
- ...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest…
- Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and…
- The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This…
- In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear…
- ... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his…
- We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
- Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
- Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of…
- Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
- The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of…
- . . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
- Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then…
- Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or…
More Photography Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams