Famous Photographers' Quotes

Dave Wooten

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• Jun 28, 2006

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Dave Wooten, "I thought it was loaded"!

 

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"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.

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• Jul 4, 2006

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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

 

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"No matter how slow the film, SPIRIT stands still long enough for the photographer IT has chosen."- Minor White

 

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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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• Jul 30, 2006

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*brings this thread to the top*

"A perfect photograph is inexhaustible" -Oliver Holmes

 

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"Don't Let The Dark Leak Out".

Sign on the outside of the Selkirk College darkroom door.

Murray

 

Bob F.

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bruce terry said:

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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Mr. google says: French film director Robert Bresson.

Cheers, Bob.

 

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• Jul 31, 2006

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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

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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

 

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"There's no such thing as a bad motif ... There's only bad photographers...!"
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• Aug 21, 2006

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"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