WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES?

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. - Ansel Adams



WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES?


"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." - Ansel Adams

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. - Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. - Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. - Ansel Adams

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. - Ansel Adams

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. - Ansel Adams

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. - Ansel Adams

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. - Ansel Adams

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. - Ansel Adams

Aaron Siskind: "Photography is like air. I couldn't live without it."


"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life." - Henri Cartier Bresson


"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Ansel Adams


"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in finding new eyes."- Marcel Proust

"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him." - Man Ray

"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing." - Robert Mapplethorpe

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, his head and his heart is an artist. -St.Francis of Assisi

"Why is Form beautiful? Because it helps us meet our worst fear, the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.  - Robert Adams




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

However, for the digital age, maybe it needs to be updated to:  “Your first 100,000 digital photographs are your worst.”