Monday, 8 April 2013

My Favourite Quotes on Photography

“Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything.” -Leonard Missone

"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." – Elliott Erwitt

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

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." -Diane Arbus

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” - Susan Sontag


“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!” - Joe McNally

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

“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.” - Scott Lorenzo

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