(188 quotes found)
“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.”
William Albert Allard
“I've always been better at photographing things I like than things I don't like,”
John Szarkowski
“I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.”
Robert Frank
“My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.”
Charles Moore
“There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour”
Samuel Butler
“When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.”
Ansel Adams
“Now you've gotta spend two thousand bucks to stay at my house. And for five, I'll let you photograph my wife in the shower.”
Kevin Smith
“It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.”
Susan Sontag
“It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.”
“I like photographers you don't ask questions.”
Ronald Reagan
