Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Haas

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

Ernst Haas

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

Ernst Haas

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Ernst Haas

The best zoom lens is your legs.

Ernst Haas

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

Ernst Haas

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera...

Ernst Haas

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

Ernst Haas

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

Ernst Haas

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

Ernst Haas

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

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

Ernst Haas

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

Ernst Haas

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

Ernst Haas

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Ernst Haas

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Eudora Welty

I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

Eudora Welty

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Federico Fellini

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

Fay Godwin

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

Fay Godwin

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Fay Godwin

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Fay Godwin

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Eve Arnold

I came to photography by accident.

Eve Arnold

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

Eve Arnold

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

Eve Arnold

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Eve Arnold

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.

Francis Bacon

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know...

Francis Bacon

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

George Santayana

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

Chris Parnell

I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form.

Chris Hondros

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

Jean Cocteau

The only way to kill death is through photography.