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“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

“— How do you make your pictures?
— I don’t know, it’s not important.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.”
― Katja Michael

“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists is to teach me how they see. To learn how I see is somethig that cannot be taught but must be learned.”
― Brooks Jensen, Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life

“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

“Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“We observe few objects really closely. As we walk on the earth, we observe the external events at two or three arms' lengths. If we ride a horse or drive in an automobile, we are further separated from the immediate surround. We see and photograph "scenery"; our vast world is inadequately described as the "landscape." The most intimate object perceived daily is usually the printed page. The small and commonplace are rarely explored.”
― Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

“It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.”
― Linda Olsson

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams

“You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.”
― Blue GhostGhost, Art Criticism

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
― Ansel Adams

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
― Ansel Adams

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
― Ansel Adams

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”
― Ansel Adams

“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
― Ernst Haas

“Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!”
― Marius Vieth, Better Street Photos In 3 Powerful Steps

“You are responsible for every element within the frame.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

“The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options before turn into creative solutions that improve your photography even more.”
― Marius Vieth

“I've hardly taken any pictures on this trip. Melanie teased me about it, to which I always said I preferred to experience something rather than obsessively record it. Though, really, the truth of it was, unlike Melanie (who wanted to remember the shoe salesman and the mime and the cute waiter and all the other people on the tour), none of that really mattered to me. At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things.

But there are no postcards of this. Of life.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice”
― Elliott Erwitt

“Travel , photography and wilderness are my addictions....
And I'm happy with that...”
― Kedar Dhepe

“For a Photographer - Having an OBSERVANT MIND is more important than having an expensive camera.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows: To the World Around You