Photography By Photographers Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Diane Arbus, Joe Manganiello, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston and many others.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
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.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Beauty can be seen in all things.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
