Quotations about Photography and Life
The next best thing to being clever, is being able to quote someone who is.
Mary Pettibone-Poole
In an effort to make this page load faster, I've broken up the quotes page into two parts.
The quotations below are presented in Alphabetical order; most are about Photography, but some run far a field. Eventually, I would like to offer a photograph to go with every quote on this page. I thought that rather than babble on about my own images, it would be fun to have other people describe these photographs. This is not to say that I'm comparing my work to anyone else; I just think that some of these quotations capture my sentiments much better than I could ever express myself. So, why reinvent the wheel? Besides...
Me and My New Canon 30d - April 2006
"I will never be quoted anywhere, because all of the good quotations have already been taken." Gary Palamara - 2006
Bette Midler - September 2006
Above all, it's hard learning to live with the vivid mental images
of scenes that I cared for, and failed to
photograph.
Sam Abell
"Sculpture" at Lincoln Center, New York - August 2006
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
U.S. Open Tennis - Flushing Meadows New York - September 1991
There are always two people in every picture; the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams
I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams
"Above the Clouds" on a Trip to Florida - May 1994
Sometimes I get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel Adams
New Jersey 5K Run - September 2004
A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams
Image quality is not the product of the machine, but the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
Ansel Adams
Springtime in New Jersey - May 2005
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships! - Ansel Adams
Times Square - New York City, N.Y. - December 2006
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Brooks Anderson
An Abandoned New Jersey Rail Road Crossing - September 2006
One photo out of focus is a mistake. Ten photos out of focus is experimentation.
One hundred photos out of focus is a "Style". - Anonymous
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event...
what kind of film would you use? - Anonymous
Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. - Anonymous
The Atlantic City Air Show - August 2006
The thing that's important to know is, that you never know.
You're always sort of feeling your way. - Diane Arbus
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. - Usman B. Asif
The KitchenAid Experience Greenville, Ohio - May 2006
The ear tends to be lazy, it
craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other
hand, tends to be impatient, it craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
Preying Mantis - September 2006
...in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary. - David Bailey
Lunar Eclipse - November 2003
The moon develops the
imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila Ballantyne
"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze.
They should photograph me through linoleum."
Tallulah Bankhead
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - October 1990
For those that would hope that everything would be OK, that's a bad bet...
We must stay vigilant. - David Beamer
Morning at the Reservoir - April 1991
A fool sees not
the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
It fills the frame from corner to corner.... - Casey Bohne
Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.
"Mother's Day" Central Park New York - May 2005
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved. -
Bill Brandt
"Bee Hives" Red Rock Canyon Nevada - August 1992
The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks!
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lady Liberty - September 1992
As long as the United States is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror. This will be an age of liberty both here and across the world.
George W. Bush - September 20, 2001
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
When choosing a tripod, buy the most expensive one you can afford,
and the biggest one your wife can carry.
Chuck from McBain Camera - Edmonton, Canada
Quest Diagnostics - Flight Operations Center
Reading, Pennsylvania . September 2006
The Doctor said that I drink to much...
The last time I gave a urine sample, it had an Olive in it.
Rodney Dangerfield
United Flight-93 Temporary Memorial - Shanksville, PA - November 2004
This nation will remain the land of the free, only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
Tourneau New York City - October 2006
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there.
Even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two seconds, snatched from eternity.
Robert Doisneau
Philadelphia Mummer's Parade - New Year's Day - 2005
What we do during our working hours determines what we have.
What we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. - George Eastman
You push the button, we do the rest. - George Eastman
"I haven't failed; I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
Thomas Edison
The View from New Jersey's Ellis Island - September 1992
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein
Jason and the Noisy Clacker - August 1982
It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Bonnie Stalking the Elusive Jack O' Lantern - October 2006
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
With a portrait of Edward R. Murrow over his shoulder, here Fred Friendly
poses with microphones from both of our collections - NYC - July 1992
You do not need a law to make a fairness doctrine work:
what you need is a conscience.
Fred W. Friendly
Michael Moore Sidewalk Press Conference - June 28, 2007
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. - Gandhi
You're gonna miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
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