Photography And Film Quotes:

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

- Robert Adams

topic: Inspirational, Good Night, Photography, Great Photography, Camera And Photography

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

- John Berger

source: John Berger, Jean Mohr (2016). “Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Light, Inspiring Photography, Photography And Film

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Reality, Joy, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Earth, Vanishing, Photography And Film, Film Photography

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Art, Book, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

- Richard Avedon

topic: Photography, Facts, Portraits, Digital Photography, Photo Shoots

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

- Elliott Erwitt

source: "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

- Aaron Siskind

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Art, Great Photography, Inspirational Design

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

topic: Photography, Book, Intuition, Camera And Photography, Digital Photography

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

- Imogen Cunningham

topic: Inspirational, Tomorrow, My Favorite, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

source: Oral Roberts (1978). “The Daily Guide to Miracles”

topic: Photography, Eye, Important, Great Photography, Camera And Photography

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

- Ansel Adams

source: "A Personal Credo". American Annual of Photography, Vol. 58, 1944.

topic: Photography, Expression, Photographer, Great Photography, Landscape Photography

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 your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

- Robert Capa

source: Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

topic: Photography, Photographer, Good Enough, Great Photography, Inspirational Photography

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Art, Believe, Landscape Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

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

- Ansel Adams

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Photography, Years, Twelve, Great Photography, Landscape Photography

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

- Ansel Adams

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Believe, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

- Ansel Adams

source: Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Great Photography, Inspiring Nature

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

- Richard Avedon

source: "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Photographer, Inspirational Photography, Photojournalism

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, World, May, Landscape Photography, Photography And Film

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

- Elliott Erwitt

topic: Photography, Home, Cameras, Street Photography, Camera And Photography

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Disappointment, Landscape, Landscape Photography, Photography And Film

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

- Irving Penn

source: "Excerpt: 'The LIFE Guide to Photography'". abcnews.go.com. December 27, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Heart, Facts, Inspiring Photography, Digital Photography

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

- W. Eugene Smith

topic: Travel, Doe, World, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

- Robert Frank

source: "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

topic: Photography, Two, Humanity, Photography And Film, Containment

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

topic: Photography, Naughty, Favorites Things, Landscape Photography, Favourite Things

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

- Charlotte Rampling

topic: Photography, Fashion, Real, Rolling Stones, Photography And Film

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)

- Kazimir Malevich

topic: Photography, Mean, Color, Photography And Film

I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

- Leon Golub

topic: Photography, Trying, Connections, Photography And Film

... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

- Lev Manovich

topic: Photography, Technology, Reality, Photography And Film, Computer Graphics