I've decided to collect some of my favourite photography quotes to help inspire me about photography.
AS Unit 1 and Unit 2
Ansel Adams“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 bhave loved” "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art" “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs” “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” "A true photograph need not to be explained, nor can it be contained in words" "A good photograph is knowing where to stand" "Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment" "Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution" “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication, it is a creative art" "Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop" Henri Cartier-Bresson"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv" "Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation" “ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. Ernest Haas"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are" “There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” Alfred Steiflitz“Wherever there is light, one can photograph.” “Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality” John Baldessari"I'll be remembered as the man who put dots on peoples faces" "I will not make anymore boring Art" "I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both" Berenice Abbott"Photography helps people to see" "Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past" |
“The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.”-Anne Geddes “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ”-Yann Arthus-Berthand "Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world" -Bruno Barbey "Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work"-Martin Parr "Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees it"-Paul Strand “I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”-Ghandi “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”-Abraham Lincoln "The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset" "Black and white are the colors of Photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected"-Robert Franck "A camera is a save button for the minds eye"-Roga Kingston “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera”-Dorothea Lange "Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I will take tomorrow"-Imogen Cunnigham “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”-Susan Sontag "When I have a camera, I know no fear" -Alfred Eisenstaedt "A good snapshot stops a moment from running away"-Eudora Welty "A good photographer must love life more than he does photography" -Joel Strasser Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about the photographer"-Peter Adams "I'll tell you something looking at that, we did make a false claim. I said we were never to actually move the camera during a time lapse sequence, I was wrong, Percy did it and I saw it in that film just now"-David Attenborough "Photography is all about light, composition and, most importantly emotion" -Larry Wilder "A camera didn't make a great picture anymore than a typewriter makes a great novel"-Peter Adams "A camera is a save button for the minds eye" -Roga Kingston Unknown"Life is like a camera. Focus on whats important, capture the good times, develop the negatives and if things don't work out. Take another shot" "Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives" "Life is like a camera focus on whats important & you'll capture it perfectly" "The Earth is art. A photographer is only a witness" "Photography isn't art, it's more than tat" "The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera" "When people ask me what photography equipment I use - I tell them my eyes" "Let your words be few, and your exposures be many" "Eyes like a shutter, mind like a lens" "It's not the size or the lens, its how you use it" "Every photographer was first an amateur" |
A2 Surrealism
Below are quotes that have been said by artist, poets and photographers who are considered to be part of the Surrealist movement. There are a even a few quotes from people who giving their opinion on 'Surrealism'.
"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures" "I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own." "Probably one of the worst things to happen to photography is cameras have viewfinders" "Over time the true revolutions will be carried out through the power of images" "Surrealism- in particular with Salvador Dali- was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism" "Chance is always there. We all use it. The difference is a poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time" Brassai "Making art is not something you decide to do. It's like getting hungry. It's something you need to do" "If the dream is a translation of walking life, walking life is also a translation of the dream" "The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist" |
"Surrealism found its most ardent ally in photography" Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early 60s, it had become 'petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romatic, and ground to a halt. It had become respectable Alejandro Jodorowsky "The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure" "Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No long distinguishable from everyday life" "Art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion." "Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality" "To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been" "I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea." "What camera do you use?” I say: “You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses." |