Famous quotes by Photographers

"The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"A 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, Photographer

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera"

Lewis Hine, Photographer

"Photography helps people to see"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"A good photograph is knowing where to stand"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

"My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

"The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"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, Photographer

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"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

"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

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