John St James

Art and Photography quotes to inspire your photography. Some from the famous, some from the not-so-famous.

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You can't reproduce nature with a photograph or a painting. You can only honour it - Andy Greaves

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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. - Ansel Adams

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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art - Ansel Adams

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Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology - Ken Rockwell

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Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do. John Wooden

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Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! - John Sexton

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Documentary photography (is) everyday reality recorded with a visual artistry that catches its 'feel' as well as its look - Geraldine Norman

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Nothing is repeatable especially the light - Bob Croxford

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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be - Duane Michals

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand

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Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter - Alfred Eisenstaedt

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If you see it you missed it - Anonymous

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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as judgment that the photograph is good - Garry Winogrand

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A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory - Unknown

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Bad photography, like bad art, is not the fault of the medium, but of the person using the medium - Peter Mendes

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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. - Emile Zola

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Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. - Edgar Degas

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If you only photograph when you feel like it...you'll never be totally successful as a photographer - Freeman Patterson

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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera - Yousuf Karsh