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January 1, 2019 | in Blog, Photographers, Photography quotes

2018 – 52 Inspirational photography quotes

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Inspirational photography quotes from photographers for photographers – 52 PhotoQuotes 2018.

 

 

 

January 2018

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Annie Leibovitz

“My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm”.

— Annie Leibovitz

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Ansel Adams

“The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.”

— Ansel Adams

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

“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

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Julia Margaret Cameron

“When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer”.

— Julia Margaret Cameron

February 2018

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Sam Abell

“It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use”.

— Sam Abell

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Paul Outerbridge

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty”.

— Paul Outerbridge

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Ansel Adams

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs”.

— Ansel Adams

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Mary Ellen Mark

“I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it”.

— Mary Ellen Mark

March 2018

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Joel Sternfeld

“Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world”.

— Joel Sternfeld
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Annie Leibovitz

“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much”.

— Annie Leibovitz

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Duane Michals

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see”.

— Duane Michals

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William Albert Allard

“Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone”.

— William Albert Allard

April 2018

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

“I don’t like to work with assistants. I’m already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.”

— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Richard Avedon

“We all perform. It’s what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It’s a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we’d like to be.–PERFORMANCE.”

— Richard Avedon

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Ansel Adams

“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.”

— Ansel Adams

 

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Susan Sontag

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

— Susan Sontag

May 2018

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

“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

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Annie Leibovitz

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”

— Annie Leibovitz

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Robert Frank

“You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer’s picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamour – no matter what you do, and how you twist it.”

— Robert Frank

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George Eastman

”You push the button, we do the rest.”

— George Eastman

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William Albert Allard

”You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.”

— William Albert Allard

June 2018

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Berenice Abbott

“What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.”

— Berenice Abbott

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Sam Abell

“A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.”

— Sam Abell

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Ansel Adams

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”

— Ansel Adams

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Alfred Stieglitz

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

— Alfred Stieglitz

July 2018

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Edward Steichen

“Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.”

— Edward Steichen

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Edward Weston

“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”

— Edward Weston

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Diane Arbus

“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

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Ansel Adams

“I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”

— Ansel Adams

August 2018

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Charlie Waite

“Photography is a love affair with life.”

— Charlie Waite

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Robert Frank

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”

— Robert Frank

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Yousuf Karsh

“There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.”

— Yousuf Karsh

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Helmut Newton

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”

— Helmut Newton

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Elliott Erwitt

“It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.”

— Elliott Erwitt

September 2018

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Berenice Abbott

“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”

— Berenice Abbott

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Ernst Haas

“The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.”

— Ernst Haas

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Annie Leibovitz

“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.”

— Annie Leibovitz

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Edward Weston

“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”

— Edward Weston

October 2018

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Sam Abell

“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.”

— Sam Abell

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Duane Michals

“However, I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.”

— Duane Michals

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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

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

“Never boss people around. It’s more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

November 2018

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Diane Arbus

“One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.”

— Diane Arbus

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Susan Sontag

“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art –it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure– photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made. Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac’s Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures, and Atget’s Paris. Photography is not an art like, say, painting and poetry. Although the activities of some photographers conform to the traditional notion of a fine art, the activity of exceptionally talented individuals producing discrete objects that have value in themselves, form the beginning photography has also lent itself to that notion of art which says that art is obsolete. The power of photography –and its centrality in present aesthetic concerns– is that it confirms both ideas of art. But the way in which photography renders art obsolete is, in the long run, stronger.”

— Susan Sontag

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Ansel Adams

“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

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Bill Brandt

“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

December 2018

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Roland Barthes

“The photographic image… is a message without a code.”

— Roland Barthes

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Annie Leibovitz

“I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn’t just looking back at you.”

— Annie Leibovitz

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Irving Penn

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”

— Irving Penn

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

“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
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