Photographic Quotes and Sayings
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. - Lewis Hine
No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams
A good photograph is knowing where to stand and a photograph is not an accident – it is a concept. - Ansel Adams
Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. - Anonymous
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. - Ansel Adams
A good photograph will make an uncommonly good image of common subjects. - Anonymous
My wife - she could help me get the negs out! - Ansel Adams - On being asked which to save first from a burning house - the wife or the negatives...
Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. - Anonymous
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. - Ansel Adams
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. - Harold Evans
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- Ansel Adams
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
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. - Anonymous
A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun - Anonymous
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. - Usman B. Asif
Buy a guitar you are a music student, buy a camera and you are a photographer
- Anonymous
The photography is free, my experience "that's priceless."
“ I always thought good photos were like
good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. –
Anonymous
"Perfection is the enemy of excellence! As a student
fresh out of college it's very hard to accept anything but perfection in
your work, in your publication or in your editors. It's why many
photographers are such a bitter bunch! This world is not perfect. Learn
to accept good enough!" - Brian Peterson
