Photography Quotes

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

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

To photograph is to confer importance.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

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.

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

Sure, we helped win the war. We took photographs of Japan that were used to select (bombing) targets and to analyze damage, which was our main job. It was hot on Guam, and the metal huts were like tin cans. That's why we hardly ever wore our uniforms.

The thing I love about dinosaurs is that they are on that balance point between fantasy and reality. It might be hard to believe that mermaids and dragons really existed, but we know that dinosaurs did- we can see their footprints and skeletons but we can't photograph them or see them, except in our imagination.

At 40 feet in the air, you can look through the legs of the Arch and see Union Station. It's going to be one of the best photographs that can be taken of the Gateway Arch.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Diane Arbus changed the face of photography with her powerful and moving photographs which captured 1950s and 1960s America. She has had a profound influence on photographers ever since and on the way we look at our fellow human beings. This is a long overdue retrospective which shows her work is as compelling as ever.

Photography is my passion.

Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which militate against it be opposed and destroyed.

I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

I saw the children playing with a bag lying in front of a photography store and suddenly it exploded.

This is more than a performing arts festival. We offer events, from acrobatics to kite-flying activities, a drumming extravaganza, film series, a re-creation of Beijing market fairs and a photographic display of Beijing.

My interest in birds was there as a child but it took photography to give me that push into entering their world a little closer.