Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Le Saux

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Harry Callahan

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

Harry Callahan

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

Harry Callahan

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

Harry Callahan

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Harry Callahan

A picture is like a prayer.

Harry Callahan

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Harry Callahan

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

Harry Callahan

I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Harry Callahan

I think I came alive when I started photography.

Harry Callahan

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

Harry Callahan

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

Harry Callahan

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

Harry Callahan

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

Harry Callahan

I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

Harry Callahan

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

Harry Callahan

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Harry Callahan

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Harry Callahan

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Irving Penn

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Irving Penn

Working on photography is working on oneself.

Cecil Beaton

You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!

Carrie Mae Weems

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Carl Sagan

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

Antonia Fraser

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Anton Corbijn

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

Bill Brandt

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

Bill Brandt

By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.

Bill Brandt

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

Bill Brandt

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Bill Brandt

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Jean Baudrillard

So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Herb Ritts

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.