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January 1, 2017 | in Blog, Photographers, Photography quotes

2016 – 52 Inspirational photography quotes

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Inspirational photography quotes from photographers for photographers – 52 PhotoQuotes 2016.

 

 

 

January 2016

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Henri Cartier Bresson

“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes”.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Ansel Adams

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art“.

— Ansel Adams
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Aaron Siskind

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything”.

— Aaron Siskind
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Sebastiao Salgado, Sebastião Salgado

“I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.”

— Sebastiao Salgado

February 2016

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Sally Mann

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”

— Sally Mann
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Andre Kertesz

“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself”.

— Andre Kertesz
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Minor White

“I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice”.

— Minor White
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Alfred Eisenstaedt

“We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant”.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

March 2016

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Diane Arbus

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them”.

— Diane Arbus
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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”.

— Edward Weston
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Bill Brandt

“Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare”.

— Bill Brandt
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Annie Leibovitz

“A very subtle difference can make the picture or not”.

— Annie Leibovitz
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Robert Capa

“There’s a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can’t keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual”.

— Robert Capa

April 2016

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Berenice Abbott

“Photography helps people to see”.

— Berenice Abbott
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Don McCullin

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures”.

— Don McCullin
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Roland Barthes

“The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so)”.

— Roland Barthes
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Dorothea Lange

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate”.

— Dorothea Lange

May 2016

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Henri Cartier Bresson

“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv”.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Mary Ellen Mark

“I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul”.

— Mary Ellen Mark
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William Albert Allard

“What’s really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer”.

— William Albert Allard
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Ansel Adams

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer”.

— Ansel Adams

June 2016

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John Dunning

“The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal”.

— John Dunning
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Edward Steichen

“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera”.

— Edward Steichen
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Dorothea Lange

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera”.

— Dorothea Lange
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Richard Avedon

“Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is… the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own”.

— Richard Avedon
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Ansel Adams

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

— Ansel Adams

July 2016

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Ruth Bernhard

“I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.”.

— Ruth Bernhard
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Duane Michals

“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.”.

— Duane Michals
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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 extraordinary.”.

— David Bailey
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Yousuf Karsh

“Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.”.

— Yousuf Karsh

August 2016

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Ansel Adams

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs”.

— Ansel Adams
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Henri Cartier Bresson

“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
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Annie Leibovitz

“I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.”.

— Annie Leibovitz
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Karl-Lagerfeld

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce”.

— Karl Lagerfeld
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Diane Arbus

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

— Diane Arbus

September 2016

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Henri Cartier Bresson

“I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.”.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Old photo camera

“I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity”.

— Bob Anderson
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Ansel Adams

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept”.

— Ansel Adams
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Minor White

“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence”.

— Minor White

October 2016

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Ernst Haas

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are”.

— Ernst Haas
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Diane Arbus

“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that’s what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It’s just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it”.”

— Diane Arbus
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Yousuf Karsh

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera”.

— Yousuf Karsh
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Andy Wahrol

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do”.

— Andy Warhol

November 2016

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Bill Brandt

“A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere”.

— Bill Brandt
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Ansel Adams

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment”.

— Ansel Adams
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Andre Kertesz

“The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me”.

— Andre Kertesz
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Henri Cartier Bresson

“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation”.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Robert Capa

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough”.

— Robert Capa

December 2016

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Henri Cartier Bresson

“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality”.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Berenice Abbott

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself”.

— Berenice Abbott
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Edward Weston

“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
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Ansel Adams

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution”.

— Ansel Adams
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