“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
Source: Diane Arbus: revelations
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“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.”
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.”
Source: Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.”
“The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.”
“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”
“Only photograph what you love.”
Source: Pictures
“When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.”
Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning
“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.”
“There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.”
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”
Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph”
“Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.”