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| Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~ Ambrose Bierce |
| You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. ~ Author Unknown |
| Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~ Ansel Adams |
| No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~ Robert Adams, |
| It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours. ~ James Lalropui Keivom |
| When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~ Ted Grant |
| While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ~ Dorothea Lange |
| Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~ Minor White |
| A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. ~ Ansel Adams |
| There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~ Ansel Adams |
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| The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ~ W. Eugene Smith |
| Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~ Ansel Adams |
| I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~ Author Unknown |
| A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~ Eudora Welty |
| The camera can photograph thought. ~ Dirk Bogarde |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~ William Albert Allard |
| There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~ Ansel Adams |
| No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~ Edward Steichen |
| Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~ Author Unknown |
| Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I’m glad I have that moment." ~ John Loengard |
| When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~ Ansel Adams |
| My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~ Richard Avedon |
| I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~ John Steinbeck |
| The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country’s uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~ Louis Fabian Bachrach |
| The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. ~ Author Unknown |
| A photograph is memory in the raw. ~ Carrie Latet |
| Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don’t be bitter because you can’t record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! ~ DeGriff |
| Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~ Usman B. Asif |
| All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~ Richard Avedon |