Leica Quotes:

Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest.

- Andreas Feininger

topic: Photography, Thinking, Leica, Nikon

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

- Elliott Erwitt

topic: Cameras, Use, Leica, Canon

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Leica, Great Photography

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Leica, Photographer

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Memories, Leica, Snapping, Our Memories

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Giving, Inspirational Photography, Leica

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

- Ernst Haas

topic: Photography, Differences, Cameras, Leica, Camera And Photography

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

- Eve Arnold

topic: Important, Cameras, Use, Leica

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

source: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

topic: Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance, Leica, Decisive Moments

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

- Robert Doisneau

topic: Photography, Photograph, Leica, Good Photography, Black And White Photography

Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.

- Michael Seresin

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Beautiful, Years, Quality, Leica, Camera Lenses

I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to.

- Eliot Lewis

topic: Beautiful, Light, Trying, Travel Light, Leica

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Too Late, Holes, Street Photography, Leica

If you can shoot well, all you need is a disposable, toy camera or a camera phone to create great work. If you're not talented, it doesn't matter if you buy a Nikon D3X or Leica; your work will still be uninspired.

- Ken Rockwell

topic: Phones, Cameras, Needs, Leica, Nikon

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Thinking, Secret, Leica, Before And After

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Important, Aspect, Leica

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

- Eve Arnold

topic: People, Giving, Important, Leica

There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immobile. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep.

- Patti Smith

source: "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, January 19, 2010.

topic: Children, Sleep, Kissing, Leica, Exchanging

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

- Eve Arnold

topic: People, Giving, Photograph, Leica

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

- Danny Lyon

topic: Phones, Cells, Cameras, Leica, Locker Room

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

- Garry Winogrand

source: Source: www.americansuburbx.com

topic: Tired, Thinking, Would Be, Leica, Getting Tired

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.

- Alexey Brodovitch

topic: Photography, Art, Agency, Leica, Bazaars

The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.

- Abigail Solomon-Godeau

topic: Waiting, Culture, World, Grids, Leica

It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

- Michael Kenna

topic: Photography, Running, Thinking, Snapping, Landscape Photography

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

- Garry Winogrand

source: Source: www.americansuburbx.com

topic: Teaching, Looks, Use, Leica