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“If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.”

“Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's performing, but when the show is over, he's sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.”

“Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.”

Moments Happens Differences Presses Photograph Occupation Leisure Buttons

Author:Edouard Boubat

“There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.”

World Needs I Can Important Sometimes Beautiful Faces Certain Suffering Turns Girl Flower Tvs Add Photograph Cruelty Peaceful Turn-on Beautiful Girl Vases

Author:Edouard Boubat

“I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.”

Father Regret Photograph Don't Regret

Author:Raymond Depardon

“I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.”

Want Giving Photography Photographer Photograph Advertising Editorials

Author:Josef Koudelka

“Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.”

World Needs Mind Mean Language Powerful Race Photography Universal Photographer Photograph Boundaries Fixed Nationality Interpreter Translators Transcending Universal Language

Author:Arthur Rothstein

“My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.”

Eye Beautiful Used Night Musician My Family Photograph Radio Eras Opera

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.”

Reason Moments Depends Photograph Mood No Reason Same Love

Author:Jeanloup Sieff

“I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.”

Looks Remember Photograph Attractive

Author:Barbara Cook

“I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.”

Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

“If they want a photograph, then just take it.”

Ifs Want Photography Photograph

Author:Keith Emerson

“I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.”

Individual Photograph Annie

Author:Shirley Knight

“There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.”

Matter Remember Force Difficult Photograph Confusing

Author:Brassai

“Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph”

May Lying Photograph Liars Don't Lie

Author:Lewis Hine

“Photography is a love affair with life.”

Photography Photographer Photograph Affair Love Affair Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Inspiring Photography Photography Love

Author:Burk Uzzle

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.”

Earth Vision Taken Emotional Future Photograph Available Acquire Dimensions Sustainable Development

Book:The nature of the universe

Source: The nature of the universe

“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”

World Ends Body Form Turns Women Beauty Citizens Longing Photograph Surface Redemption Celebration Pollution Identical Irresistible Junkie Poignant Probing Below The Surface

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.”

Long Doe Said Moments Wanted Three Cases Taken Saws Four Minutes Photography Rain Decided Photograph Exposure Cobwebs Decisive Moments Cartier

Author:Paul Strand

“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.”

Feels Moments Subjects Photography Photographer Photograph Rhythm Fixed

Author:Andre Kertesz

“If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Important Ends Beautiful Perfect Expression Photography Important Things Photographer Photograph Alphabet

Author:Andre Kertesz

“There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.”

Giving Art Stills Form Artist Felt Events Shapes Art Is Chaos Photograph Statements Combination Collections Internals Formal Chaotic Configuration

Author:Ansel Adams

“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.”

Photographer Photograph Surface Latent Landscape Photography

Book:Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963

Source: Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963

“The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”

Creative Produce Photography Photographer Photograph Disaster Ease Sheer Superficial Etching

Author:Ansel Adams

“I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.”

Looks Art I Can Sometimes Fine Photograph Fine Arts

Author:Ansel Adams

“I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.”

Ifs Feels I Can Would Be Felt Levels Saws My Friends Photograph Internals Mystical

Author:Ansel Adams

“My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.”

Men World Shows Battle Eternal Constant Chaos Photographer Photograph Upset Print Equilibrium Chaos In The World

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.”

Looks Stills Eye Forget Painting Aim Photographer Photograph Etc Never Forget Etching

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.”

Art Philosophy Artist Creativity Life Philosophy Photography Art Is Profound Photograph Clouds Life Experience

Book:Alfred Stieglitz

Source: Alfred Stieglitz

“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”

Kind Wanted America Artist Photography Photograph

Author:Imogen Cunningham

“I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.”

Men Said Artist Photography Hollywood Photograph Ugly Invited Ugly Man

Author:Imogen Cunningham

“The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.”

Speak Wall Mirrors Cameras Photograph Tongue Pool Twisted Reflecting Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Book:Self Portrait

Source: Self Portrait

“The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.”

Want Important Matter Values Process Difficult Term Subjects Scene Elements Capacity Tools Tasks Cameras Photographer Photograph Manage Print Translate Subject Matter Difficult Tasks

Author:Edward Weston

“I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.”

Believe Hard Certain I Believe Knowing Seeing Special Quiet Photograph I Believe In Technique Tricks Staying Not Knowing Resonance Staying Power

Author:William Albert Allard

“I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.”

People Giving Feels Trying Soul Spirit Photography Photographer Photograph Mutual Participation

Author:Yousuf Karsh

“My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.”

Mind Heart Joy Spirit Photograph Humble Chiefs

Book:Yousuf Karsh

Source: Yousuf Karsh

“For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.”

Children Faces Night Hours White Gone Saws Expression Sitting Cameras Wine Dancing Photograph Corners Inevitable Sat Saying No White Wine Sitting Quietly

Author:Richard Avedon

“My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.”

Feels Ideas Faces Reading Lost Standards Sitting Excellence Photograph Surface Features Contests Clue Great Faith Below The Surface Standards Of Beauty

Author:Richard Avedon

“There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.”

Ifs Giving Persons Stills Character Genius Photography Understood Performances Cameras Photograph Actresses Invention Related

Author:Richard Avedon

“I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you”

People Knows Should Mean Said Home Young Courses Can Do Differences Millions Subjects Photographer Photograph Best Things Intimate Staying Family And Friends

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.”

“When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.”

Firsts Stills Attention Objects Approach Essence Photograph Captured Your Presence

Author:Minor White

“All photographs are self-portraits.”

Self Photographer Photograph Portraits Self Portrait

Author:Minor White

“It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.”

Want Groups Series Photographer Photograph Satisfied Curious Urges Sonnet

Author:Minor White

“To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.”

Mind Eye Sides Photographer Photograph Sequence

Author:Minor White

“While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.”

Persons Play Moments Roles Subjects Function Photographer Photograph Metaphor Appearance Symbols That Moment

Author:Minor White

“One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.”

Should Photographer Photograph

Author:Minor White

“Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.”

Ifs Want Needs Artist Talking Concepts Complexes Photograph Communicate

Author:Galen Rowell

“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”

Taken Happened Color Brother Comfortable Scientist Twenties Photograph Expected Magazines My Brother Almighty Mechanic Twenty One Hiroshima Scientific Truth

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.”

Draws Photograph Viewers

Author:Stephen Shore

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