Famous quotes by Photographers

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. 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

"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years, and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world, and in a spiritual sense, I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world, and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir Trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions, and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"Ever since the 1860s, when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America, we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"And most of my early pictures failed, but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

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