77 Captions And Quotes On Photography Said By Famous Photographers - Ansel Adams & More

With these 70 quotes on photography I would like to present you with a summary of all my quotes on photography.For a long time I thought that it would be a great thing to post all the quotes one after the other. You can then easily fall back on these if you need a clever quote about photography for a clever sentence, an article about photography or for your website.

So let's get into our Captions And Quotes On Photography Said By Famous Photographers - Ansel Adams & More article shall we?

List of quotes:

A good photo is one that you look at for more than a second. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Digital photography not only enables us to capture memories, but also to create them. - James Wayner

 

I don't like landscapes. Just people and plastic flowers. - Elliot Erwitt

 

Who can see can also take photos. However, learning to see can take a long time. - Leica AG slogan

 

Two people are always involved in a picture: the photographer and the viewer. A photo is usually only looked at - one rarely looks into it. Twelve good photos in a year is a good yield. - Ansel Adams

 

Even in the early days, when the photographer measured the exposure time himself, when the developer was meticulously mixed in the darkroom to achieve certain effects, there was manipulation. In fact, every photo from A to Z is a fake. A completely factual, unmanipulated photo is practically impossible. In the end it is all a question of measure and ability. - Edward Steichen

 

I would retouch my whole life. - Dusty Springfield

 

Anyone can take pictures. Also a machine. But not everyone can watch. Photography is art only insofar as the art of observation makes use of it. Observation is an elementary poetic process. Reality also has to be shaped if you want to make it speak. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

 

Taking pictures is more than pressing the shutter release button. - Bettina Rheims

 

I want to make something visible that the crowd is no longer present. - Author unknown

 

Photography demands time. If you don't have time, you can take photos. - Author unknown

 

Lively photography creates something new, it never destroys. It proclaims human dignity. Lively photography is already positive in its beginnings, it sings the praises of life. - Berenice Abbot

 

Photography is my second language. - Gary Kapluggin

 

I give duration to the moment. - Manuel Alvarez Bravo

 

The amateur cares about the right equipment, the professional cares about the money and the master cares about the light. - Georg IR B.

 

Never photograph something that you don't care about! - Lisette model

 

Taking pictures is a way of screaming, of breaking free ... It's a way of living. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Photographing nature is firsthand experience. - Fritz Polking

 

A photo no longer tells the truth. It only suggests one way. - Photokina 2000

 

Make visible what might never have been perceived without you. - Robert Bresson

 

Anyone who, as a beginner, ignores the design rules of photography has no sense. But anyone who clings to it for a lifetime has no imagination. - Detlev Motz

 

You have to hurry if you want to see something, everything disappears. - Paul Cezanne

 

Making the essence of the human being visible when taking a picture is the highest art of photography. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

 

A picture gives us the feeling of holding the whole world in our hands. Photos are documents of the moment, of life, of history. Photography transforms the world into an everlasting offer, from reality into the realm of fantasy, from pain into joy - through the window of the soul, the eye. - Mario Cohen

 

Art has nothing to do with taste. - Max Ernst

 

Obviously the equipment was expensive and I don't get better pictures from it. But now I have more fun with my bad pictures. - Heiko Chancellor

 

Critics are good friends who point out mistakes. - Benjamin Franklin

 

From photography in natural colors ... unfortunately

, almost nothing can be expected not only for the near future, but for theoretical reasons ... for all future as well. - Emil Du Bois-Reymond

 

Those who take photos have more from life. - Text from the advertisement.

 

It is no more a coincidence that the photographer becomes a photographer than it is a coincidence that a lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. Dorothea Lange

Photography teaches that how well you see has nothing to do with how well you see. - Author unknown

 

There is nothing worse than a brilliant picture of a bad concept. - Ansel Adams

 

The equipment we use only plays a minor role. Rather, what matters is mastering it. - Sam Abell

Words and pictures communicate much more strongly together than alone. - William Albert Allard

 

You have to work harder. You have to start looking for pictures that no one else can take. You have to take your tools and drill deeper. - William Albert Allard

 

It's not the camera, but who is behind it. - Author unknown

 

Always keep your fingers over the chest of the person you are being photographed with. That will look dynamic. And no photo editor can cut you out of the picture. - Ken Auletta

 

I don't think the average person wants a "map" of their face. I think she wants to be idealized. - Louis Fabian Bachrach

 

Growing up in war, listening to Churchill's speeches and being bombed every night in Glasgow - that got me into photojounalism. It was the drama - I wanted to be close to the center of things. - Harry Benson

 

Results are uncertain - even among the most experienced photographers. - Matthew Brady

 

There are many photos that are full of life but still difficult to remember. What is important is the effectiveness. - Brassai

 

The photographer's main tool is his eyes. As crazy as it seems, many photographers choose to see through the eyes of others - past or present - photographers. These photographers are blind. - Manuel Alvarez Bravo

 

Satisfaction arises when you work alongside 500 other photographers and still have something else to show for you. - David Burnett

 

Of course it's always luck. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

The world is about to fall to pieces and people like Adam and West are photographing rocks! - Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

Of course there will always be those who just look at the technology and ask “how”, while others of a more curious nature will ask “why”. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration over information. - Man Ray

 

Pictures that you have taken have an impact on the ones you will take. So life is! - John Sexton

 

It's crazy that photographers spend years or a lifetime capturing moments that, when put together, don't even make a couple of hours. - James Lalropui Keivom

 

Every time someone tells me how sharp my picture is, I assume that it is not a very interesting photo. If it were so, then there would be more to say. - Author unknown

 

There will be times when you are on the field without a camera. And then you will experience the most beautiful sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever seen. Don't be bitter because you can't absorb it. Sit down, sink into it and enjoy it! - DeGriff

 

Anyone who has seen a cathedral ten times has seen something, who has seen ten domes once has seen very little, and anyone who has ever spent half an hour in a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing. - Sinclair Lewis

 

There is only one rule in photography: never develop a film in chicken soup. - Freeman Patterson

 

The fact that a technically flawed photograph (in the conventional sense) can be emotionally more effective than a technically flawless image will shock those who are naive enough to believe that technical perfection is the true value of a photo. - Andreas Feininger

Amateur photography association: Association for mutual self-admiration. - Anonymous

 

In addition to all the things we cannot see, there are also the things we do not want to see because we have chosen to ignore them. For example, at the moment I've decided to ignore the sound of my breathing, the feel of the ring on my finger, the sight of the glasses right on my nose, even the nose itself. The aperture of a camera and the pupil are not there to let in information, but to block out some. Anyone who has ever had a camera in their hand knows that too much information can blind you just as much as too little. If you wanted to listen to all nine of Beethoven's symphonies at the same time, you would only hear the noise. - KC Cole

 

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams

 

Truly all photographs are self-portraits. - Elizabeth Opalenik

 

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. - Richard Avedon

 

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. - Henri Cartier Bresson

 

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. - Diane Arbus

 

As is well known, art comes from being able to, not from will. - Waltraud Puzicha

 

If you can write well, you also write well with a bad brush. - From Japan

 

Because the painters understand nature and teach us to see it. - Vincent van Gogh

 

An artist must approach his work in the same condition as the criminal commits his deed. - Thomas Mann

 

We were born to learn; if we learn together, we will reach our goal faster. - Manfred P. Zinkgraff

 

Each work is a self-portrait of the person who did that work. - Karl Pilsl

 

It's not important to be better than everyone else. Important is to be better than you've been yesterday. - Apanic wisdom

 

A portrait that does not elicit the characteristics is like a person without secrets. - Andreas Otto

 

Above all, it is dangerous for an artist to be praised. - Edvard Munch

 

Being ready is a lot, being able to wait is more, but first: seizing the right moment is everything. - Arthur Schnitzler

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