Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. -Richard Avedon In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. -August Sander = Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. -Rene Magritte Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. -Ken Rockwell It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. -Paul Caponigro My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. -Andy Warhol Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. -John BergerĪ photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. -Ansel Adams Paintings record what the painter remembers. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings. It’s amazing how you can create your own little world in the camera. -Trevor DayleyĪll photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams Shoot what it feels like. – David Alan Harvey If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time. – Robert Doisneauĭon’t shoot what it looks like. No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. -Robert Adams When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. -Ansel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. -Ambrose Bierce The real skill of photography is organised visual lying. -Terence DonovanĪ hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there–even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. -Robert Doisneau What you see in the photograph isn’t what you saw at the time. The magic of photography is metaphysical. The more it tells you the less you know. -Diane Arbus They are so much more sure than I am about everything. -John SteinbeckĪ photograph is a secret about a secret. In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. -Susan Sontag But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! -Ted Granįor me a photograph is most successful when it doesn’t answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. -Greg Gorman When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. -Ernst Haas If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. -Linda McCartney It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours. -James Lalropui Keivo It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. -Susan Sontag The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. -Susan Sontag Eugene SmithĪ good snapshot stops a moment from running away. -Eudora Welty The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. -W.
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