“You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.”
- Mark TwainPhotography Quotes
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”
- Henry David Thoreau“If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough”
- Robert Capa“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”
- John Berger“One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. “
- Author Unknown“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”
- Duane Michals“The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.”
- Ansel Adams“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
- Edward Steichen“I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.”
- Ken Burns“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
- Imogen Cunningham“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
- Paul Caponigro“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
- Ansel Adams“I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.”
- Rick Steves“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.”
- Ansel Adams“If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.”
- Edward Weston“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”
- Ted Grant“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”
- James Lalropui Keivom“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”
- Robert Adams“You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.”
- Author Unknown“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. “
- Ansel Adams“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
- Ambrose Bierce“Photography helps people to see”
- Berenice Abbott“Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.”
- Author Unknown