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photography quotes

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. - Marc Riboud

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. - Andre Kertesz

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. - Eudora Welty

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. - Ansel Adams

Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. - Peter Adams

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. - Peter Adams

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. - Tony Benn

The thing that is magnificent about photography is that it can produce images that incite emotion based on the subject matter alone. – Brassai

The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same. - Wynn Bullock

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. - Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photography is a bitter medicine, a wonderful toy, a difficult -yet universal- word. - Mauro Fiorese

When you photograph people in color, you are photographing their clothes. When you photograph them in black and white, you photograph their souls. - Ted Grant

Many people ask me why I am always carrying my cameras, or ask me why I am taking pictures. I often ask them, "Why do you eat?" - James Lalropui Keivom

Photography is a means of recording forever the things one sees for a moment. - Aaron Sussman

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others. -Margaret Bourke White, on war and photojournalism

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea Lange

I am gathering evidence for history. - Gilles Peress

Photography is the art of being able to see the world one moment at a time, and still being able to make sense of it all. - Jason Raddin

It's not about moving pixels, it's about pictures that move us. - John Weiss

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. - Minor White