Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

Ansel Adams

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Andreas Gursky

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Andreas Gursky

My father did advertising photography.

Angela Cartwright

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavours and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

Angela Cartwright

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Angela Cartwright

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavours and from there it just blossomed.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

D. H. Lawrence

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

Conrad Hall

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

Conrad Hall

Photography is a very important part of my life.

David Bailey

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

David Bailey

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

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 Lynch

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

David Lynch

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Confucius

An image is better than one thousand words

Photography is my only language.

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

Ambrose Bierce

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

Annie Leibovitz

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

Annie Leibovitz

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

Annie Leibovitz

Photography is not something you retire from.

Annie Leibovitz

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

Annie Leibovitz

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.