(188 quotes found)
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
Yousuf Karsh
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Susan Sontag
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”
Tallulah Bankhead
“To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.”
Dave Barry
“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
Edward Steichen
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
Ansel Adams
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
“What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.”
William Albert Allard
“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
Walker Evans
“The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.”
