Photography Quotes

[orourke]

<p>Ran across these. Some famous, some obscure. Thought I'd share.... enjoy<br>

<a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/photography.html">http://www.quotegarden.com/photography.html</a></p>

[jgalyon]

<p>thanks, Bill! i've heard many of these quotes, but there were some that were new to me, and quite fascinating and enjoyable.</p>

[steve_levine]

<p>One of my favorites:<br>

<strong><em>One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.------- Diane Arbus</em></strong></p>

[orourke]

<p>There are many quotes I like in there. One is.......<br>

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant<br /><br /></p>

[ellis_vener_photography]

<p>The home source of those quotes is: http://www.photoquotes.com</p>

<p>One of my favorites is: http://bit.ly/eM9ayU</p>

[steve m smith]

<p>David Bailey when asked by a government employee if he ever uses digital:</p>

 

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<p>"Nah" drawled Bailey "digital's like socialism - it flattens everything out and makes everything the same".</p>

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[Norma Desmond]

<p>My guess is that Ted Grant simply didn't know how to use or read color. </p>

[ellis_vener_photography]

<p>My all time favorite is from Elliot Erwitt:</p>

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<p><em><strong>It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.</strong></em> </p>

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[nano_burger]

<p>My favorites:<br>

"Hey babe, lets go into the darkroom and see what develops."<br>

and<br>

"What you put behind the lens isn't nearly as important as what you put in front of the lens."<br>

I think that was in response to the digital/film wars that still flare up time to time.</p>

 

[sfcole]

<p>I recently took the site's owner to task for quoting L. Ron Hubbard, who is not known as a photographer and really had nothing to say of value on photography. Let alone anything else.</p>

[don_essedi]

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. - Jean Baudrillard

 

For those who don't know, Baudrillard was a very good photographer, not a 'Hubbard'

[steve m smith]

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<p>L. Ron Hubbard, who is not known as a photographer and really had nothing to say of value on photography.</p>

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<p>He had a great camera collection though!</p>

[Mike D]

<p>"F8 and be there." is my favorite. I've been on probably a dozen 3-4 day photo tours to national parks in the last decade and so many photographers spend so much time adjusting the DSLR's aperture and settings. My philosophy is just put the damn lens on F8 (and matrix metering) and don't worry about it. Bracket if you are photographing in difficult lighting conditions. Being there is a lot more important then camera settings.</p>

[john_markanich]

<p>I think it was Weston who said "...Making a good photograph is easy. You just look through the viewfinder and open a vein".</p>

[gulfbeach47]

<p>I have a sticker that I posted on old briefcase many years ago that I stored music cassettes in. Everyone has probably heard this one but it reads <strong>PHOTOGRAPHERS THINK NEGATIVE</strong>.</p>

<p>Anyone want to buy some cassettes cheap:)</p>

[riz]

<p>Very nice one, John.</p><div></div>

[gulfbeach47]

<p>Good example Rizwan:)</p>