Quotes on Camera And 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.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

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

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.