15 Amazing Quotes On Photography

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing. – Marcel Duchamp

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. – Emile Zola

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time. – Robert Doisneau

If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. – Edward Weston

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. – Alfred Eisenstaedt

Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase. – Percy W. Harris

A good photographer must love life more than he does photography. – Joel Strasser

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. – Linda McCartney

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. – David Alan Harvey

Of course it’s all luck. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. – Andy Warhol

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. – Walter Sickert

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. – Edward Steichen

The camera’s only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. – Ken Rockwell

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. – Paul Caponigro

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Random Thoughts on Photography

“ You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams

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

“ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

“ Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

“ You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

“ If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. – Garry Winogrand

“ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. – Anonymous

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

“It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. – Timothy Allen – On editing photos

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