I leave you the best quotes from famous photographers in history such as Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Besson, Berenice Abbott, Elliott Herwitt, Dorothea Lange and many more, about the perception and meaning that photography has for them. These quotes are ideal for gaining a greater understanding of this art, as well as finding inspiration in this field.
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-The photographs are there, you just have to take them. -Robert Capa.
-A good photographer is one who knows where and how to stand. -Ansel Adams.
- Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result that counts, no matter how it is achieved. -Bill Brandt.
-In the world of photography, one can share a moment that has been captured with other people. -James Wilson.
-Taking photographs is to savor life intensely, every hundredth of a second. -Marc Riboud.
-Photography is the only language that can be understood in all parts of the world. -Bruno Barbey.
-I don't trust words. I trust the photographs. -Gilles Peress.
-There are no rules to take good photographs, there are simply good photographs. -Ansel Adams.
-When your heart leaps every time your camera manages to fix its focus… you have become a photographer. -Mark Denman.
-Photography is the beauty of life captured. -Tara Chisolm.
-If you see something that moves you and you photograph it, you have just saved a moment. -Linda McCartney.
-What the human eye observes casually and so lacking in curiosity, the camera's eye captures with implacable fidelity. -Berenice Abbott.
-What reinforces the content in a photograph is the sense of rhythm, the relationship between forms and values. -Henri Cartier-Bresson.
-Photographing in a genuine and effective way consists in seeing beyond the surface and capturing the qualities of nature and humanity that live and / or are present in all things. -Ansel Adams.
-Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a life of shame. In photography, most are moments of shame and a life of pleasure. -Tony Benn.
-Something that can be seen in my photographs is that I was not afraid of falling in love with those people. -Annie Leibovitz.
-When people see my photographs I want them to feel the same way they feel when they want to read the verse of a poem again. -Robert Frank.
-Essentially, photography is enlightened life. -Sam Abell.
-The results are uncertain even among the most experienced photographers. -Matthew Brady.
-Character, like a photograph, is revealed in the dark. -Yousuf Karsh.
-There is something strange and powerful about black and white photographs. -Stefan Kanfer.
-Photography is such a subtle reality that it becomes more real than reality. -Alfred Stieglitz.
-You can see a photograph for a whole week and never think about it again. But you can also look at a photograph for a second and think about it all your life. -Joan Miro.
-Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to highlight. And I do it by showing the world as I really perceive it. -Martin Parr.
-It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can make things up. But in photography everything is so ordinary that much observation is needed before learning to see the extraordinary. -David Bailey.
-The contrast is what makes photography interesting. -Conrad Hall.
-I ventured into the world of photography because it seemed to be the perfect vehicle to criticize the madness of the current world. -Robert Mapplethorpe.
-I did not choose photography, photography chose me. -Gerardo Suter.
-Wherever there is light, one can photograph. -Alfred Stieglitz.
-Taking pictures is like sneaking into the kitchen one late night and stealing a few Oreo cookies.
-Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and properly composing beauty is what separates a quick capture from a photograph. -Matt Hardy.
-The skill in photography is acquired through practice, not buying it. -Percy W. Harris.
-In the process of creation, we are literally bringing into this world something that did not exist before. -Montana Dennis.
-Photography helps people to see. -Berenice Abbott.
-We create photographs to understand what our lives mean to us. -Ralph Hattersley.
- Photography for me is not to observe, it is to feel. If you cannot feel what you are looking at, then you will not be able to make others feel something when they see your photographs. -Don McCullin.
-Fear is the only thing that prevents many photographers from reaching their greatest potential. -Collin Pierson.
-All the photographs are accurate. None of them is reality. -Richard Avedon.
-How about we start taking pictures of people and stop taking pictures of poses? -Justin and Mary Marantz.
-I love the people I photograph. What I mean is that they are my friends. I have never met most of them, or do not know them at all, but still through my photographs I live with them. -Bruce Gilden.
-My interest in photography is not to capture a photograph that I see or that exists in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments that I can only begin to imagine. -Lois Greenfield.
-It is one thing to take a photograph showing how the person looks, and another thing is to take a photograph that shows who they are. -Paul Caponigro.
-Don't take a picture thinking about how it looks, take the picture thinking about how it feels. -David Alan Harvey.
-Photography is a powerful means of expression and communication, it offers an infinite variety of perceptions, interpretations and executions. -Ansel Adams.
-The best photographs are those that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed. -Anne Geddes.
-Most of my photographs are based on people, I look for that unforeseen moment, where the soul appears and the experience is drawn on the face of the person. -Steve McCurry.
-I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. -Ellen Von Unwerth.
-Photography is the record of strangeness and beauty with enchanting precision. -Sebastian Smee.
-The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera. -Dorothea Lange.
-A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. -Diane Arbus
-What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that has disappeared forever, impossible to replicate. -Karl Lagerfeld.
-There are always two people in each photograph: the photographer and the viewer. -Ansel Adams.
-In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. -August Sander.
-The camera is an excuse to be in a place where you would not otherwise belong. It gives me, both, a point of connection, and a point of separation. -Susan Meiselas.
- Photography is about figuring out what can happen in the frame. When you put four borders around some facts, you change those facts. -Garry Winogrand.
-The best photos are about depth of feeling, not depth of field. -Peter Adams.
-The reason itself for taking pictures is the fact that you don't have to explain things in words. -Elliott Erwitt.
-Photography extracts an instant from time, and alters life by keeping it immobile. -Dorothea Lange.
-Of course, everything is a matter of luck. -Henri Cartier-Bresson.
- I have never taken the photograph that I have proposed. They always come out better or worse. -Diane Arbus.
-If you are out there taking pictures, things will happen for you. If you are not out there, you will only hear about them. -Jay Maisel.
-The eyes must learn to listen before seeing. -Robert Frank.
-My photographs are the result of being in that place at the right time. -Rene Burri.
-For me, photography is the art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I have come to realize that it has little to do with the things you see and a lot to do with the way we see them. -Elliott Erwitt.
-The only and most important element of a camera is the twelve inches behind it. -Ansel Adams.
-I believe that the emotional content is the most important thing in a photograph, regardless of its technique. Much of the material I see these days lacks the emotional impact to elicit a reaction from viewers, or to stay in their hearts. -Anna Geddes.
-When the words become fuzzy, I must focus on the photographs. And when images become inappropriate, I must settle for silence. -Ansel Adams.
-You must demand more of yourself. You should start looking for photographs that no one else could have taken. You have to take the tools you have and dig deeper. -William Albert Allard.
-The more you take pictures, you learn to discern more and more of what can and cannot be photographed. You just have to keep doing it. -Eliot Porter.
-The best camera is the one you have with you. -Chase Jarvis.
-I think that a great capacity to dream is what leads people to be great photographers. -Wayne Miller.
-It's just you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are imposed by yourself, since in what we see we discover who we are. -Ernst Haas.
-The art of photography is based on directing the viewer's attention. -Steven Pinker.
-Sometimes you can tell a great story with a small subject. -Eliot Porter.
-A photograph is usually observed, it is rarely observed within it. -Ansel Adams.
-The two most interesting powers in photography are to make new things look familiar and familiar things look new. -William Thackeray.
-My life is shaped by the urgent need to travel and observe, and my camera is my passport. -Steve McCurry.
-The land is art, the photographer is just a witness. -Yann Arthus-Berthrand.
-I have realized that the camera captures the world in a different way than the human eye does, and those differences can sometimes make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. -Galen Rowell.
-There is one thing that the photograph must contain; the humanity of the moment. -Robert Frank.
-The more photographs you see, the better you become. -Robert Mapplethorpe.
-A camera is a button to save what the mind's eye sees..-Roger Kingston.
-The camera is more than a recording device, it is a means by which messages from another world reach us. -Orson Welles.
-One must learn to use the camera as if one were going to go blind tomorrow. -Dorothea Lange.
-When I have a camera in my hands, my fear is blurred. -Alfred Eisenstaedt.
-Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. -Yousuf Karsh.
-When I say that I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I want to meet them. Anyone I know I photograph. -Annie Leibovitz.
-A good photographer is one who communicates a fact, touches the heart and changes the viewer for having seen what he saw. It is, in a word, effective. -Irving Penn.
-One does not take a photograph, one does. -Ansel Adams.
-I think of photography as a therapy. -Harry Gruyaert.
-A portrait is not made in the camera but on the other side of it. -Edward Steichen.
-If the photos are not good enough, then you are not close enough. -Robert Capa.
-Photography is a love affair with life. -Burk Uzzle.
-When you photograph a face, you photograph the soul that is behind it. -Jean-Luc Godard.
-Don't pack your camera until you've left that place. -Joe McNally.
-Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly difficult to really make it work. -Martin Parr.
-I wish that in all the magnificence of nature, the emotion and vital energy of the place could be photographed. -Annie Leibovitz.
-The photography has nothing to do with the cameras. -Lucas Gentry.
-It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. -Alfred Eisenstaedt.
- I really believe that there are things that nobody would see if they did not photograph them. -Diane Arbus.
-We do not learn from our good photographs, we learn from those that can be improved. -Jen Rozenbaum.
-What makes photography a strange invention is that its raw materials are light and time. -John Berger.
-Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensitivity and everything you are to say something and be part of the world around you. -Peter Lindbergh.
-Your first ten thousand photographs are the worst. -Henri Cartier-Bresson.
-Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles. -Dragan Tapshanov.
-Today exists to end in a photograph. -Susan Sontag.
-For me photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the importance of an event. -Henri Cartier-Bresson.
-I walk, look, see, stop and take a picture. -Leon Levinstein.
-No place is boring if you've had a good night's sleep and have a bag full of unexposed rolls. -Robert Adams.
-Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to have tomorrow. -Imogen Cunningham.
-I used to think that I couldn't lose someone if I photographed them enough. But the truth is that my photographs show me how much I have lost. -Nan Goldin.
-A photograph is a painting colored by the sun with no education in art. -Ambrose Bierce.
-Whatever situations you find yourself in, you have to find a way to get the best out of them. -Mary Marantz.
-Just photograph what you love. -Tim Walker.
-Perception is not reality, it is the only reality. -Amy and Jordan Demos.
-I think photographers should shoot what they want, not what they have at hand. -Roberto Valenzuela.
-If I could tell a story in words, I wouldn't need to carry a camera with me. -Lewis Hine.
-The camera can capture more than the eyes, so why not make use of it? -Edward Weston.
-For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. -Henri Carter-Bresson.
-Landscape photography is the ultimate test for the photographer and often the ultimate disappointment. -Ansel Adams.
- Photography is a way of feeling, touching and loving. What you have captured on the roll you have captured forever. -Aaron Siskind.
-When I take photographs, what I'm really looking for are answers to things. -Wynn Bullock.
-I think life is too short not to be doing something you really believe in. -Steve McCurry.
-If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and is compassionate, that is enough. The instrument is not the camera, but the photographer. -Eve Arnold.
-Taking a photograph is to hold your breath when all possibilities converge to capture a fleeting reality. -Henri Cartier-Bresson.
-The camera gave me incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to wander the world and look at people and things from very close. -Carrie Mae Weems.
-If you want to be a better photographer, go and stand in front of more interesting things. -Jim Richardson.
-Photographers open the doors to the past, but also allow a glimpse into the future. -Sally Mann.
-When you photograph people in color, you take pictures of their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls. -Ted Grant.
-God creates beauty. My camera and I are simply witnesses. -Mark Denman.
-The best thing about a photograph is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. -Andy Warhol.
-Photography is like a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if it can create the illusion of being in an interesting world -Steve Pinker.
-You can't just press the shutter without leaving a piece of you in the picture. -Joe Buissink.
-Black and white are the colors of the photograph. For me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which humanity is eternally subject. -Robert Frank.
-Photography, in the best of cases, is a small voice, but sometimes a photograph or a group of photographs can attract our sense of consciousness. -W. Eugene Smith.
-A photograph is a memory in its crudest form. -Carrie Latet.
- Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need half a second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves. -Patrick Demarchelier.
-Of course there will always be those who only pay attention to technique, who ask "how?", While others of a more curious nature will ask "why?" Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. -Man Ray.
-A true photographer does not need to explain himself, nor can he be described by words. -Ansel Adams.
-My photographs do not go beyond the surface. They do not go beyond anything. They are surface readings. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. -Richard Avedon.