Quotes on Photography By Photographers

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

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.

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

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.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

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

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

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

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

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

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.

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.

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.