Quotes on Great 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.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

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

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

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

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.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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

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.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

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