Alas Quote by John Szarkowski Download Open image “A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.” — John Szarkowski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Best work Done Inspirational Photographer Photography
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes –… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.… — Carl Mydans Copy Share Image
A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work. — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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