Sage words from some of the best.
- “Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.” — Ansel Adams
- “Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- “The world is falling to pieces and all Adams and Weston photograph is rocks and trees”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson - “A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
— Annie Leibovitz - “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus - “I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
— Diane Arbus - “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.”
— Jim Richardson - “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
— Robert Capa - “Your first 1,000 photographs are your worst.”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson - “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 - Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
— Susan Sontag - “A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
— George Bernard Shaw - “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
— Richard Avedon - Perfection is not something I admire. A touch of confusion is a desirable ingredient.”
— Saul Leiter - “I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.”
— Saul Leiter