“I can’t tell you how many pictures I’ve missed, ignored, trampled or otherwise lost, just ’cause I’ve been so hell-bent on getting the shot I think I want.”ģ4. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping away at what’s in front of you.”ģ3. “I think a photograph, of whatever it might be – a landscape, a person – requires personal involvement. "The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different."ģ2. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.” Robert Doisneauĭavid Burnett (Image credit: VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images) (opens in new tab)ģ1. “You must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. “Ultimately, simplicity is the goal in every art, and achieving simplicity is one of the hardest things to do, yet it’s easily the most essential.” Pete TurnerĢ5. But other things change, they’re not always there the day after or the week after.” Paul StrandĢ4. A rock will probably always be more or less there just the way you saw it yesterday. “Photography is a medium in which if you don’t do it then, very often you don’t do it at all, because it doesn’t happen twice. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” Man RayĢ3. ![]() “Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” David BaileyĢ2. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things, but in photography. “It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. Best online photography courses (opens in new tab)ĭavid Bailey (Image credit: Roberto Ricciuti/WireImage, Getty Images) (opens in new tab)Ģ1.And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.” Jean-Luc Godard “If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture." Eddie Adamsġ0. Nan Goldin Best photography quotes: What makes a good picture?Ġ9. ![]() It's about emotional obsession and empathy. They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. ![]() A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. The same thing goes for photography.” Andre KerteszĠ8. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. but they don’t really get intimate with the medium until they’ve made a few bad shots.” Cecil BeatonĠ7. “You can’t teach people photography, they’ve got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. Cecil Beaton (Image credit: Hulton Archive/Stringer, Getty Images)Ġ6.
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