Photography Quotes
+3If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
- Robert Capa
+3Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams
+1The camera can photograph thought.
- Dirk Bogarde
+1You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
- Ansel Adams
+1Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!
- Brett Weston
+1A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
- Ansel Adams
+1No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
- Edward Steichen
+1Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
- Edward Steichen
+1The photographic image … is a message without a code.
- Ansel Adams
+1A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
- Roland Barthes
+1The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
- Harold Evans
+1Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty four times a second.
- Jean Luc Godard
+1A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1The camera’s only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
- Ken Rockwell
+1There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
- Man Ray
+1There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
- Ansel Adams
+1In photographing dwarfs, you don’t get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
- Sontag
+1There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- Ansel Adams
+1A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
- Diane Arbus
+1Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
- Duane Michals
+1If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things: a painting and a photograph.
- Janet Malcolm
+1Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
- Emerson
+1The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
- Susan Sontag
+1Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
- Susan Sontag
+1Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde
+1When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital “T”.
- Vicki Goldberg
+1The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to see.
- Ernst Haas
+1Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
- Edward Weston
+1When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!
- Ted Grant
-1A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
- Henri Cartier
