Blessed be the inventor of photography!
It has given more positive pleasure to poor
suffering humanity than anything else that
has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which
even the "poor" can possess themselves
of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
?Jane Welsh Carlyle
You know what a camera is?
A mirror with memory.
?Source Unknown
Photography to the amateur is recreation,
to the professional it is work, and hard work too,
no matter how pleasurable it my be.
?Edward Weston
A photograph is neither taken nor
seized by force. It offers itself
up. It is the photo that takes you.
One must not take photos.
?Henri Cartier-Bresson
I always thought of photography as
a naughty thing to do -- that was one
of my favorite things about it, and when
I first did it, I felt very perverse.
?Diane Arbus
When photography was invented it
was thought to be an equivalent to
truth, it was truth with a capital "T".
?Vicki Goldberg
I took to photography like a duck to water.
I never wanted to do anything else.
Excitement about the subject is the voltage
which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery
necessary to produce the final photograph.
?Berenice Abbott
To manipulate an image is to control a people
?Carolyn Gerard
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good
photographer. You need less imagination to
be a painter, because you can invent things.
But in photography everything is so
ordinary; it takes a lot of looking
before you learn to see the ordinary.
?David Bailey
The Equipment you'll leave at home,
you'll need the most. You're always out of film
when you'll have the best opportunity.
?Murphy's Rules
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
The virtue of the camera is not the power
it has to transform the photographer into an artist,
but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
?Brooks Anderson
Photography can never grow up
if it imitates some other medium. It has
to walk alone; it has to be itself.
?Berenice Abbott
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations
of the known world instead of vital objects
which create an intrinsic world of their own.
There is a vast difference between taking
a picture and making a photograph.
?Robert Heinecken
Photography is a major force
in explaining man to man.
?Edward Steichen
I love the medium of photography, for with
its unique realism it gives me the power to
go beyond conventional ways of seeing and
understanding and say, "This is real, too."
?Wynn Bullock
Photography is truth. And cinema is
truth twenty-four times a second.
?Jean-Luc Godard
Photography, as a powerful medium
of expression and communications,
offers an infinite variety of perception,
interpretation and execution.
?Ansel Adams
Photography records the gamut of feelings
written on the human face, the beauty of the
earth and skies that man has inherited and the
wealth and confusion man has created.
?Edward Steichen
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is
not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation
of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting
or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its
subject in the way that a photograph does.
?John Berger
If photography were difficult in the true sense . . .
that the creation of a simple photograph would entail
as much time and effort as the production of a good
watercolor or etching -- there would be
a vast improvement in total output.
?Ansel Adams
