Great Photography Quotes

Great Photography Quotes

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156 Great Photography Quotes

1. You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
Author Unknown


2. A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams


3. The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.
Ansel Adams


4. If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
Robert Capa


5. A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus


6. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams


7. Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Aaron Sussman


8. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams


9. Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.
Matthew Brady


10. The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score and the print the performance.
Ansel Adams


11. I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
Galen Rowell


12. Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
Author Unknown


13. A photograph is like a recipea memory the finished dish.
Carrie Latet


14. You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams


15. In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz

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