Photography Quotes — Page 24

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Photographer

“The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.”

Simple Photography Technique

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“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.”

Thinking Eye Photography

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“The craft of photography is the key to good images.”

Keys Photography

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.”

Photography Photographer

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.”

Winning Photography Overcoming

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.”

Reality Photography Black And White

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.”

Photography Accessories Gadgets

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Ansel Adams

Photographer

“...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.”

Color Photography Black And White

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Walker Evans

Photographer

“I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.”

Thinking Men Photography

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Salvador Dali

Artist, Surrealist

“The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.”

Different Photography Perspective

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Robert Adams

Photographer

“Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.”

Art Doe Photography

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Robert Adams

Photographer

“The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.”

Jobs Views Photography

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