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Famous quotes by Photographers

PhotographersPhotography is an art kind that captures moments in time, and also the words of digital photographers can typically be just as inspiring as the pictures they develop. From the greats like Ansel Adams to contemporary masters like Annie Leibovitz, these quotes by professional photographers use insight right into the creative process and the power of photography. Whether you're a budding photographer or simply value the art, these quotes will certainly aid you see the globe in a new light.
Small: Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold
Arnold Newman
"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, Photographer
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Small: There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the info
Arnold Newman
"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants"
Arnold Newman, Photographer
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Small: One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know"
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer
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Small: It is part of the photographers job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him so
"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country"
Bill Brandt, Photographer
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Small: Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own pri
Arnold Newman
"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world"
Arnold Newman, Photographer
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Small: The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in ter
Arnold Newman
"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day"
Arnold Newman, Photographer
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Small: I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life
"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods
"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: Were all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who dont spend any time, or think they
Cindy Sherman
"We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
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Small: Cats dont like change without their consent
Roger Caras
"Cats don't like change without their consent"
Roger Caras, Photographer
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Small: Weve already seen how its going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building o
Richard Drew
"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center"
Richard Drew, Photographer
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Small: The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thin
"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth"
Edward Steichen, Photographer
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Small: Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravita
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection"
Edward Weston, Photographer
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Small: What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that Im not only involved directly with
Galen Rowell
"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world"
Galen Rowell, Photographer
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Small: I am selfish, but thats an attribute that all artists possess
Robert Mapplethorpe
"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess"
Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer
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Small: I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not
"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didnt have a darkroom, but that didnt stop
"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: Get it out of your historic head
"Get it out of your historic head"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head whe
"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: I hate big models
"I hate big models"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a m
"Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates"
Bill Brandt, Photographer
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Small: Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a se
"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field"
Bill Brandt, Photographer
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Small: You know the problem, we dont want to believe what we know
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
"You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know"
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer
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Small: Some people say to me, Isnt it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that
"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. Theres always someone who doesnt like it
"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I dont discuss that
"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods
"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: There are certain things you dont discuss with Ansel, especially if you dont agree
"There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: Id never kill myself for a man. I wouldnt do it for anybody
"I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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Small: I dont think theres any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. Peopl
"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent"
Imogen Cunningham, Photographer
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