Photography And Film Quotes by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ansel Adams, Leon Golub, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus and many others.
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera
I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels…
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
