| Author |
Quotes |
| Ansel Adams | Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. |
| Ansel Adams | If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. |
| Ansel Adams | In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. |
| Ansel Adams | Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. |
| Ansel Adams | There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. |
| Berenice Abbott | I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. |
| Berenice Abbott | Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. |
| Brooks Anderson | The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. |
| Carolyn Gerard | To manipulate an image is to control a people |
| David Bailey | It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary. |
| Diane Arbus | I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. |
| Diane Arbus | I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. |
| Dorthea Lange | The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. |
| Dorthea Lange | Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see. |
| Edward Steichen | Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. |
| Edward Steichen | Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. |
| Edward Weston | Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. |
| Elizabeth Bowen | The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. |
| James Mcneill Whistler | If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this. |
| Jane Welsh Carlyle | Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. |
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