Photography Quotes & Sayings

Photography Quotes & Sayings

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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



Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer, and often the supreme disappointment. - Ansel Adams



In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. - Henri Cartier-Bresson



The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. - Edward Steichen



Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. - Jacques-Henri Lartigue



Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. - Berenice Abbott



It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary. - David Bailey



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



When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. - Edward Steichen