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I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality. — Ralph Gibson

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement. — Walter J. Phillips

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. — Ansel Adams

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past. — David DuChemin

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. — Shannon L. Alder

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle. — Brandon Stanton

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion. — Man Ray

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with. — Keith Carter

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography. — Seamus McGarvey

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey

No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page. — M.G. Vassanji

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography. — Jim Lee

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. — Cornell Capa

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. — Edward Weston

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact. — Eugene Delacroix

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive — Josef Koudelka

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. — Henry Fox Talbot

Significance is inherent in the human body. — Julia Kristeva

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines ... — Ilka Chase

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. — Stephen Shore

Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers. — Bill Jay

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted. — Peter Diamandis

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful. — Bill Jay

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible. — Vicki Goldberg

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus. — Kelly E. Lindner

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. — Chuck Close

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London. — Martin Parr

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed. — Jean-Luc Godard

Be in love with the moments of your life. — Matthew Knisely

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. — Diane Arbus

The greatest moments are right in front of you. — Matthew Knisely

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. — Will Self

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure. — Julian Lennon

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. — Catherine Opie

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle. — Willi Munzenberg

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life. — Alec Soth

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s. — Leonard Nimoy

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. — Leonard Nimoy

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. — Galen Rowell

My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget. — Devin Dygert

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. — Susana Fortes

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. — Robert Rauschenberg

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson

Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved. — Oliviero Toscani

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. — Edward Steichen

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music. — Lester Beall

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. — Garry Winogrand

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. — Sol LeWitt

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. — Harold Eugene Edgerton

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me. — Helena Christensen

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick ... Like an animal and a prey. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being. — Alexa Chung

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. — Jeffrey Kluger

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand. — Robert Mapplethorpe

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera — Arno Rafael Minkkinen

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. — Cindy Sherman

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University. — Ren Ng

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image. — Anne Geddes

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. — Oscar Wilde

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting ... wonderful! — Joe McNally

Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can — John Sexton

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind. — Erik Johansson

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. — Mike MacDonald

If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless. — Mary Ellen Mark

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. — Garry Winogrand

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. — Galen Rowell

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field. — Rick Steves

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography. — Katherine Waterston

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. — Ralph Steiner

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one ... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business. — Marc Riboud

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. — Wynn Bullock

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. — Diane Arbus

The most important lesson in photography is learning to photograph what you love. — Tony Northrup

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly. — Emmet Gowin

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. — Walker Evans

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. — H.G.Wells

In the final analysis, photography ... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau

It is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. — John Gossage

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it. — Raymond Depardon

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen. — Harry Callahan

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation. — Elliott Erwitt

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans

Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning. — Julian Barnes

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. — Ernst Haas

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point. — Ernst Haas

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room. — Minor White