Quotes
Photography Quotations By Famous People Of The World
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
→ Pablo Picasso
The camera can photograph thought.
→ Dirk Bogarde
You press the button and we do the rest.
→ Proverb
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
→ Ansel Adams
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!
→ Brett Weston
An index for measuring futility and pride.
→ Michael Almereyda
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
→ Usman B. Asif
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
→ Ansel Adams
…everything looks worse in black and white.
→ Paul Simon
To manipulate an image is to control a people.
→ Carolyn Gerard
My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
→ Diane Arbus
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
→ Edward Steichen
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.
→ Richard Avedon
A photograph is usually looked at seldom looked into.
→ Ansel Adams
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
→ Edward Steichen
The photographic image … is a message without a code.
→ Ansel Adams
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
→ Roland Barthes
You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
→ Pentax
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
→ Harold Evans
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
→ Robert Capa
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
→ Ansel Adams
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
→ Anonymous
Best wide angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah→ha’.
→ Ernst Haas
If I could tell a story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug a camera.
→ Lewis Hine
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty four times a second.
→ Jean Luc Godard
