Quotes that every photographer should know

[peterm1]

“You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus” – Mark Twain

Samuel Clements may not have been talking about photography but the quote is never the less very appropriate.

Here are 10 quotes that every photographer should know. (This time by photographers about photography)

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/photography-quotes

And here are twelve more

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/12-more-photography-quotes-you-should-know

Kinda neat!

 

[Richard G]

You can observe a lot from just watching.

Yogi Berra

 

[Vince Lupo]

Here's another source....

http://www.focalpower.com/app/quote/subjects/4/

 

[Mcary]

Film is cheap
unknown

What the writer meant by this is that if after spending hundreds if not thousand of dollars to get to a place that you'll probable never get a chance to visit again it seems rather silly to worry about the cost of a few extra frames or even rolls of film.

 

[peterm1]

"f/8 and be there" is a classic.

This reminds me of the old story about two guys, one of them a keen street photographer, walking along the street when they see a disheveled beggar on the side of the road. One guy, the photographer stops and bends over him, while the other guy keeps walking. A short time later he catches up. "What did you give him?" says the other guy. "Oh f8 at 125th of a second" says the photographer.

 

[Bobfrance]

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine

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

 

[robklurfield]

"In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs."
Susan Sontag
Quote #533

 

[robklurfield]

"We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room."
Minor White
Quote #613

 

[robklurfield]

"Leica, schmeica. 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
Quote #58

 

[robklurfield]

"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion...the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."
Dorothea Lange
Quote #377

 

[robklurfield]

"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Quote #396

 

[robklurfield]

"It’s easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air."
Walker Evans
Quote #538

 

[ray*j*gun]

"f/8 and be there" is a classic.

I was trained "f/11 and be there ...." but that was in the tropics using tri-x.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Geoffrey Crawley: "Of course, I could be wrong."

Cheers,

R.

 

[Lord Fluff]

"f/8 and be there" is a classic.

"f2.8 and be there"

Denis Reggie on Wedding Photography.

 

[FranZ]

'The question is not what you look at, but what you see' - Thoreau

 

[bensyverson]

Not specifically photography, but it's one of my favorites:

"Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically."
Sol Lewitt

 

[sepiareverb]

"It just came out that way" -countless photo 1 students.

 

[LeicaTom]

"If your pictues aren't good enough, you aren't close enough"

Robert Capa
1913-1954
(Killed by a land mine while on assignment in French Indo-China in 1954)

 

[andersju]

"Don't talk to me about digital. I've got hypo in my veins. The stains you see on my shirts are Dektol. I like the dark room, the radio, the yellow light glowing. I rip the printing paper into quarters. One square is swimming in the Dektol. Through the clear, brown liquid I see my work emerging – my picture. Then I take it, the little piece, and give it away, a gift, to the person pictured in it, a return for what they have given me. Thirty years pass. People die. Children grow old. They keep the little piece, stuck up on a wall with thumbtacks, creased and stained: themselves, young and alive, forever.
That is photography."

— Lyon, Danny. (2009). Memories of Myself. Phaidon Press.