{"id":5734,"date":"2018-03-26T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2018-04-29T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:51:30","slug":"photo-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/photo-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"metadata singleline\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquotes1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquotes1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquotes1-320x212.jpg 320w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquotes1-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"photoquotes1\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But I wonder, what else do \u201cthey\u201d say? In order to find out I\u2019ve culled together the best quotes on the subject of photography. I hope they inspire you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cPhotography is the story I fail to put into words.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinsparks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Destin Sparks<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Ansel Adams<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote1-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote1-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"Photograph by Jennifer Trovato\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption>Photograph by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennifertrovato.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Jennifer Trovato<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Alfred Stieglitz<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Robert Frank<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTaking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Anonymous<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPhotography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever\u2026 It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Aaron Siskind<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Ralph Hattersley<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Annie Leibovitz<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote2-320x205.jpg 320w\" alt=\"photoquote2\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cYou don\u2019t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Unknown<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPhotography for me is not looking, it\u2019s feeling. If you can\u2019t feel what you\u2019re looking at, then you\u2019re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Don McCullin<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Edward Steichen<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it\u2019s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Paul Caponigro<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Andy Warhol<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTaking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Diane Arbus<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote3.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote3-320x181.jpg 320w\" alt=\"photoquote3\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTo me, photography is an art of observation. It\u2019s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place\u2026 I\u2019ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Elliott Erwitt<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Scott Lorenzo<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it\u2019s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Eve Arnold<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Anonymous<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote4.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote4-320x199.jpg 320w\" alt=\"photoquote4\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Dorothea Lange<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cEssentially what photography is is life lit up.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Sam Abell<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI don\u2019t trust words. I trust pictures.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Gilles Peress<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn\u2019t photograph them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Diane Arbus<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTaking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Marc Riboud<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cOnce you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Anonymous<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPhotograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Ambrose Bierce<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPhotography is truth.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Jean-Luc Godard<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote5.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote5-320x234.jpg 320w\" alt=\"photoquote5\" width=\"600\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe camera makes you forget you\u2019re there. It\u2019s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Annie Leibovitz<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Linda McCartney<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Ansel Adams<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Diane Arbus<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe whole point of taking pictures is so that you don\u2019t have to explain things with words.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Elliott Erwitt<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne doesn\u2019t stop seeing. One doesn\u2019t stop framing. It doesn\u2019t turn off and turn on. It\u2019s on all the time.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Annie Leibovitz<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that\u2019s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Karl Lagerfeld<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote6.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote6-320x212.jpg 320w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote6-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"photoquote6\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Irving Penn<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cBeauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Matt Hardy<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTo me, photography is an art of observation. It\u2019s about finding something interesting an ordinary place\u2026 I\u2019ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Elliott Erwitt<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou don\u2019t take a photograph, you make it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Ansel Adams<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen people ask me what equipment I use \u2013 I tell them my eyes.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Anonymous<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI wish that all of nature\u2019s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Annie Leibovitz<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI never have taken a picture I\u2019ve intended. They\u2019re always better or worse.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Diane Arbus<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAll photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Richard Avedon<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cToday everything exists to end in a photograph.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Susan Sontag<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Wayne Miller<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote7.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote7-320x203.jpg 320w\" alt=\"photoquote7\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cI love the people I photograph. I mean, they\u2019re my friends. I\u2019ve never met most of them or I don\u2019t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Bruce Gilden<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Jim Richardson<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I\u2019d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Annie Leibovitz<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Steve McCurry<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cLook and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Yousuf Karsh<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote8.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote8-320x237.jpg 320w\" alt=\"photoquote8\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don\u2019t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Susan Meiselas<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cMost things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Tony Benn<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Alfred Eisenstaedt<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Ellen Von Unwerth<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cGreat photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Peter Adams<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cLife is like a camera. Just focus on what\u2019s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don\u2019t work out, just take another shot.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Unknown<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"extendsBeyondTextColumn\" src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote9.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote9.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/05\/photoquote9-320x169.jpg 320w\" alt=\"photoquote9\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cOnly photograph what you love.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Tim Walker<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>August Sander<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen I photograph, what I\u2019m really doing is seeking answers to things.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Wynn Bullock<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cCharacter, like a photograph, develops in darkness.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Yousuf Karsh<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don\u2019t even amount to a couple of hours.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>James Lalropui Keivom<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cOnce photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Anonymous<\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhich of my photographs is my favorite? The one I\u2019m going to take tomorrow.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <b>Imogen Cunningham<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><b>About the author<\/b>: Tammy Jean Lamoureux is a photographer, artist &amp; gypsy based out of Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA. You can see more of her work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamourdelaphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">her website<\/a>. This article was originally published by Curated Quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curatedquotes.com\/photography-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/photo-quotes\/\"><span class=\"fa fa-mail-forward read-more-icon\"><\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-97","category-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/341.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}