favourite photo quotes

[konicaman]

See my signature:

 

[one90guy]

One of my favorites.

“ Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

David

 

[George Bonanno]

"The camera doesn't lie."

 

[daveleo]

"f4 and be there" . . . Dave Leo

 

[doolittle]

"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

'I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job." - Don McCullin

 

[noisycheese]

“It’s not YOUR picture, it’s MY picture!” - Garry Winogrand to a guy who told him not to take his picture.

Gee -- what would Sontag think of this??

If asked, she would probably have called Winogrand a mass murderer...

Onward and upward - here is one of my favorites:

"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." - George Eastman

For three others, see my signature line.

EDIT

While this was written about painting rather than photography, it seems to be equally applicable to either medium.
From Vinccent Van Gogh:

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

 

[Hosermage]

From jonoslack:

If a photograph is interesting, nobody cares if it's technically good. If a photograph isn't interesting, nobody cares at all.

 

[gns]

I just read this one...

“When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.” – Hiroshi Sugimoto

 

[zeshootist]

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

Brilliant.

 

[jsrockit]

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag

And she didn't say that recently either... I wonder what she'd think now!

 

[xia_ke]

A few of my favs...

"A good photograph is one that makes the viewer so aware of the subject that they are unaware of the print."- Kodak

"...if you find afterwards that you made a mistake, the price of the film and chemicals was...tuition!" - greybeard

"The hard part isn’t the decisive moment or anything like that – it’s getting the film on the reel!" - John Szarkowski

"I love the smell of fixer in the morning. It smells like creativity!" - don't recall who said this. Saw it on APUG.

 

[borret]

In a world that is by nature always in flux, wave after wave of photographic opportunities keep rolling in.

by Philippe L. Gross in Tao of Photography

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Well, I haven't posted for a few years. See my signature line.

 

[Darthfeeble]

"I'm done buying camera gear" Darthfeeble