Photographer's Quotes-Which stand out for you?

[kbg32]

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

- Diane Arbus

 

[jshelly]

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

and

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.

Both by Robert Frank

 

[erikhaugsby]

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

HCB

 

[Todd.Hanz]

a few:

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -Walker Evans


When asked how he felt about missing photographs while he reloaded his camera with film, he replied "There are no photographs while I'm reloading" -Garry Winogrand


I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. -Garry Winogrand

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. -Pablo Picasso


Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers- dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. -Pablo Picasso


you can find more here: http://www.photoquotes.com/

Todd

 

[dmr]

"f/8 and be there" --Weegee

There are some variants of this attribution. 🙂

 

[darr]

Of course it's all luck. -Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

[kbg32]

a few:

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -Walker Evans


When asked how he felt about missing photographs while he reloaded his camera with film, he replied "There are no photographs while I'm reloading" -Garry Winogrand


I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. -Garry Winogrand

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. -Pablo Picasso


Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers- dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. -Pablo Picasso


you can find more here: http://www.photoquotes.com/

Todd

That's an interesting site Todd. One that I used to visit every once in awhile.

 

[anselwannab]

I love that Gary Winogrand quote about only pictures when he's taking them. Almost a quantum physcial statement. I really like that quote website. In the vein of the Winogrand quote:

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. -Ansel Adams

And the one about 12 good pics a year. That does sound low, but I would have over a hundered winners by now, and I really don't!

I'm kind of partial to my own quotes though!

Mark

 

[ray_g]

"That's it. I am at peace with my equipment." - Backalley 😉

 

[kbg32]

"That's it. I am at peace with my equipment." - Backalley 😉

Joe's famous last words!

 

[ray_g]

Okay, seriously -

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. -Robert Frank

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Linda McCartney: I don't like being told what to do.

 

[julianphotoart]

Not much of a quote, but I like William Fox Talbot referring to photography as the "pencil of nature".

 

[drmatthes]

(Quoted from memory, after seeing a film interview with HCB at the exhibition in Berlin, two days after his death, August 2004)

"Releasing the shutter in the decisive moment - how shall I explain... it's like an orgasm."

HCB


Jesko

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2006 AD
800 yrs Dresden
80 yrs Zeiss Ikon

 

[back alley]

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
Robert Doisneau

keeps me humble 😉

 

[back alley]

"That's it. I am at peace with my equipment." - Backalley 😉

...and i am...again 🙂

 

[ddutchison]

The wide-angle is the chameleon of lenses, it takes on the character of the person using it.

--Barry Sonnenfeld-- (cinematographer)

 

[RdEoSg]

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. -Robert Capa

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. -Robert Capa

The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks! -Henri Cartier-Bresson, during the 1930's

 

[StuartR]

Though I am not always 100% into his photos, I think Ansel Adams was right on the money when he said: "There is nothing worse than a sharp photo of a fuzzy concept". The correlary is of course HCB's statement about sharpness being a bourgeois concept.

And here are some fuzzy legs to celebrate their quotes:

 

[Avotius]

"It might look good in black and white but never forget the world is in color." - me