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
"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
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.”
"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
"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
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."
