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#1

“If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.”
― Deeksha Mittal

tags: dslr, learning, life, life-quotes, photographer, photographers, photography, photography-quotes

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#2

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus

tags: art, photography, secrecy, secrets

1145 likes

#3

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

tags: art, photography

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#4

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag

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#5

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
― Robert Frank

tags: photography

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#6

“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

tags: photography, secrets

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#7

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: belief, paintings, photography

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#8

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
― Alfred Stieglitz

tags: photography

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#9

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank

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#10

“People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

tags: appearance, camera, invisible, photo, photographer, photography, shallow

185 likes

#11

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
― Edward Weston

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#12

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

tags: photography

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#13

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: beauty, photography, portraits

1498 likes

#14

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
― Aaron Siskind

tags: photography

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#15

“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
― Nan Goldin

tags: art, loss, lost-love, photography

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#16

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

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#17

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ”
― Ansel Adams

tags: landscape, landscaping, photography

114 likes

#18

“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

tags: art, photography

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#19

“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
― diane arbus

tags: art, photographs, photography

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#20

“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”
― Joe McNally, The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters

tags: photography

73 likes

#21

“Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.”
― Nikki Sixx , This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx

tags: differents, life, nikki, nikki-sixx, sixx, this-is-gonna-hurt

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#22

“I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.”
― Keith Carter

tags: photography

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#23

“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”
― Dorothea Lange

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#24

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
― Annie Leibovitz

tags: art, photography

334 likes

#25

“One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.”
― Diane Arbus

tags: photography

37 likes

#26

“The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.”
― Edvard Munch

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#27

“I don't trust words. I trust pictures.”
― Gilles Peress

tags: photography

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#28

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
― Peter Gasser

tags: photography

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#29

“First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.”
― Sameh Talhamy

tags: life, photographer, photography, power, quotes, rule, rules

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#30

“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

tags: photography

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