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Famous Photographers' Quotes

"When people look at my pictures, I want them to feel the way they do when they want to reread a line in a poem". Robert Frank.

Murray
 
jnanian said:
"why is everything so black, oh the lenscap is still on" anonymous
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John... That wasn't by anonymous, it was me!!!!

gene
 
"No matter how slow the film, SPIRIT stands still long enough for the photographer IT has chosen."- Minor White
 
I've got this penciled in my notebook from years ago, but I didn't note the source:

Make visible what, without you, might never be seen.
 
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"A perfect photograph is inexhaustible" -Oliver Holmes
 
"Don't Let The Dark Leak Out".

Sign on the outside of the Selkirk College darkroom door.

Murray
 
Two from Fred Picker:

"Photograph only what excites you, never what you think will make a good picture." -- Fred Picker

"Assume you are in the wrong place." -- Fred Picker

I have one that is a paraphrase, if anyone has the actual quote, I'd appreciate it:

"You'll never make a photograph that everyone loves, so make sure that you love every one of your photographs." -- Oliver Gagliano


And one that is not strictly about photography, but whenever I begin to doubt myself, I think about it:

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation." -- Robert Hughes

John Clark
www.johndclark.com​
 
J D Clark said:
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation." -- Robert Hughes
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That one's a keeper!

Murray
 
"There's no such thing as a bad motif ... There's only bad photographers...!"
Peder Dahl
 
"90% of success is showing up."

-Woody Allen (So true about photography)

"I take photos because I'm fascinated by what happens when nobody's there."

-Me
 
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