 | To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting 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
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 | The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
- Henri Cartier Bresson |
 | The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
- W. Eugene Smith |
 | Photography is love affair with life.
- Burk Uzzle |
 | Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
- Garry Winogrand |
 | Thanks to my effort in that last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
- Man Ray |
 | Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.
- Helmut Newton |
 | Bad, rich amateurs think fuzzy black-and-white images of proof people the art.
- Ken Rockwell |
 | Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
- Peter Adams |
 | There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
- Ernst Haas |
 | The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
- Robert Doisneau |
 | Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
- Dorothea Lange |
 | Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
- Berenice Abbott |
 | Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
– Imogen Cunningham |
 | You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
- William Albert Allard |
 | No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocked full of unexposed film.
- Rober Adams |
 | A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
- Eudora Welty |
 | Every other artist begin with a blank canvas, a piece of paper… the photographer begins with the finished product.
- Edward Steichen |
 | I am not interested in rules of conversation. Photography is not a sport.
- Bill Brandt |
 | Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
- Yousuf Karsh |
Some more inspiring quotes
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I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.
– Anonymous |
If you’re photographing in color you show the color of their clothes – if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.
- Anonymous |
Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
- Author Unknown |
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.
- Anonymous |
A photograph is portrait painted by the sun.
- Author Unknown |
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out of focus are a style.
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