Cytaty (Quotes)

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Richard Avedon

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.

Robert Capa

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask “how,” while others of a more curious nature will ask “why.” Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Man Ray

A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.

David Bailey

I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.

Diane Arbus

The problem for an amateur is that he/she has no reason to take a photograph.

Terence Donovan

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

Robert Doisneau

People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.

David LaChapelle

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Annie Leibovitz

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

Sebastiao Salgado

Photographers are violent people; first they frame you, then they shoot you, and finally they hang you on the wall.

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