photography quotes

Hello everyone today I was working on gathering photography quotes, I

was instered in which quotes you love and why. Candice. I believe in

equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.? Mahatma

Gandhi (1869-1948)

hi

 

have you seen this

 

http://www.photoquotes.com/

 

this is one of my favorites

 

"The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's

true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it.

You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to

unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough." -Diane Arbus

 

cheers

 

lucas

Not quite photo quotes, but worth a read:

 

"The difference between passion and desperation is the size of your bank account."

 

"Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. "

- Reverend Lovejoy

 

"Using your turn signal is like divulging information to the enemy."

 

"I'd give my left arm for another right arm in place of my current left arm"

 

And my favorate (for the irony):

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."

"My wife's first night home, when she had the baby? all three of us slept in the same bed. There was this incredible light coming in the room, and I thought it was the light from a spaceship. I got up and I said goodbye to [my wife and baby] very politely, and I was ready to go."

 

---JOEL-PETER WITKIN

I have none immediately, but for now I second the Diane Arbus quote. As a painter, I thought anything could be "painted". Just give me anything, I thought, and I'll paint the heck out of it. I find, moving into photography, I have the same feeling.

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Dr. Alfred Barnes, of the famous Barnes Collection of paintings in Pennsylvania ( <a href="http://www.barnesfoundation.org/h_main.html"> about Dr. Barnes </a> ), always said he never remembered what the subject of the painting was...because it was the language of the painting that enveloped him. (Terribly terribly paraphrased...but I hope I got the idea across). Oddly, it was the same way I looked at paintings. My friends talked about the "objects" and I could only see the exciting language,- the spatial conditions mainly, and compositions.

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In fact, I am almost deflated by thinking of the subject first in photography. If the light is there (if the light defines) the meaning will come.

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Are you writing a book? Teaching a class?

Not strictly about photography, but I like it.

 

"To those of you who will begin, as I did, at an early age to be interested in creative effort, I have a word or two to say: Follow no one. Only you can lead yourself. Be open-minded and ready to reject every extraneous influence. Use your own. Talk is cheap; let others talk. Pay no attention to them or to me. Shun them and me with your self-discipline. Value your freedom from the shackles of the strait jacket. A rose is a rose regardless of its position on the bush. Approach your line of activity as an individual. Be independent. There is but one law to obey, the law of freedom: and obedience to that law is liberty."

 

Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs

 

I also like F8 and be there 20 minutes early - for view camera users.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"- Hunter Thompson

"We live in a world of shadows. You got a problem with that?" Overheard from a videographer who couldn't light a match, much less a commercial shoot he was hired to do.

"Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. As a matter of fact nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love; and viewed in this light the incorrectness of the popular classification is readily apparent." Alfred Stieglitz

 

"Somebody Let the rabble in." Lewis Carroll, upon the introduction of negatives and subsequent demise of colliodian plates.

 

both from www.photoquotes.com

<i><blockquote> "The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the

mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've

never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop

thinking.

But the job is to seek the mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange

plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an

answer." <p>

- Ken Kesey </blockquote> </i><p>

(excerpted from "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen)

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Ring the bells that still can ring<br>

Forget your perfect offering<br>

There is a crack, a crack in everything<br>

That's how the light gets in.<br>

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Ring the bells that still can ring<br>

Forget your perfect offering<br>

There is a crack, a crack in everything<br>

That's how the light gets in.<br>

That's how the light gets in.<br>

That's how the light gets in.<br>

 

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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

-- Stella Adler, American actress

 

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

-- Pablo Picasso

 

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

-- Pablo Picasso

 

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

-- Confucius

From Dave Barry:

 

"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."

When asked by a very high end photographer to his assistant while passing through a small city, what is St. Roccos Hall?

 

"St. Roccos hall is the reason you raise your prices..."

Woody Allen:

 

The lamb and lion shall lie down together.

But the lamb won't get much sleep.

Hi Candice, I keep a number of inspirational quotes throughout my photographic workplace at home. One of the more humbling ones is I believe from Cherie Hiser:"Most famous photographers work their entire life and produce tens of thousands of negatives and hundreds or perhaps thousands of prints but are remembered for less than ten and famous for just one." This spurs me to be more daring when I photograph and I actually have taped "be daring" on my lenshood as a reminder. Cheers.

I read a great quote in a biography about B-western movie producer, Nat Levine.Levine ground out "6 reelers" like sausages in the 1930's.Feature films were shot in under 5 days!

 

Late one Friday night,Levine stormed onto a sound stage to scold the director,(Otto Brower) and crew for falling a day behind schedule on their latest "horse opera".

 

After Levine left, Brower was quoted as saying, " do you mean to tell me, there is actually someone waiting to see this"?

"My wife and I lived happily for 20 years...... then we met!"

 

No seriously, I have a new photography quote "shoot first, think later" since I have often missed great shots after trying to compose, think about exposure comp, etc and then missed out altogether. It would be better to get a soft or underexposed image of a one off event than no shot at all, and sometimes it adds impact as well as capture the mood. Hey there is another quote for ya! LOL.