“ QUOTES ON PHOTOGRAPHY
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. —Elliott Erwitt
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. —Ansel Adams
The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. —Henri Cartier Bresson
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. —William Albert Allard
Photograph honestly, let the Camera do the lying. —Mike Dowson
Never believe in yourself, ever, because complacency and vanity will creep in to your work, always be full of doubt, doubts about your work but never about yourself. Boldness is the key to being a ‘good’ photographer, boldness and being completely uninhibited. Don’t allow other people’s opinions to influence you. Take your work seriously but not yourself. Never acknowledge ‘mistakes’ because they do not exist in photography.
A photographer who doesn’t photograph women is no photographer, or only a third-rate one. Meeting a woman anywhere teaches you more about the world than reading Balzac. Whether it be a wife, a woman encountered by happenstance, or a prostitute, she will teach you about the world. In fact I build my life on meeting women and I have hardly read a book since primary school. … I think that all the attractions in life are implied in women. —Nobuyoshi Araki
