Take note of and remember the following photo quotes. Its always worthwhile to learn from masters.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated in quotations. Benjamin Disraeli 1. You dont take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams Full awareness of what makes a good photo is essential in taking great photographs. Why would anyone be interested in this photo and what elements can be included or excluded to make it truly great? 2. Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. Henri CartierBresson Do you know how many photos you have taken up until now? You will have to take thousands of pictures to reach a point where you can begin to evaluate them objectively. Looking upon your photos as if you were looking at them through someone elses eyes is a good way to give yourself constructive criticism. Comparing your first photos with your most recent, do you see improvement? Do you remember how you loved some of your first photos do you still love them or are they now not so good anymore? 3. Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. Matt Hardy You often dont or cant see beauty in the world until someo ne shows it to you. Take a look around you just now even without moving from the computer. Can you see something in a new way, a different way of presenting something common? Just take a look again 4. Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all timesI just shoot at what interests me at that moment. Elliott Erwitt When the world is your canvas, so to speak, you need your tools with

you to capture everything around you. Make a habit of always carrying a camera with youyou will never suffer the regret of wishing you had. 5. Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one Im going to take tomorrow. Imogen Cunningham Never be fully satisfied with what youve done. Never stop photographing. It is very likely that your best photograph has not yet been captured. 6. Youve got to push yourself harder. Youve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. Youve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. William Albert Allard We are always looking for reasons for not taking good pictures. Cartier-Bresson used film camera, same lens, no flash, same shutter speed he didnt need the newest digital equipment to take great photos. We all have access to some subjects that no one else has access to look at your friends hobbies, the workplaces of friends and family, and any place you have access to to find a vision that comes uniquely from your access. Many people would dream of having the same access you have, and you might not have considered how valuable your access is. 7. If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. Garry Winogrand How often have you seen a photo that is missing something, thinking, This is a good photo but Id make it different somehow.? Sometimes small things make a big difference. Dont be afraid to shake things up. 8. I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isnt that good. Anonymous Sometimes it is interesting to hear the story behind the photo and you see the photo in a new light. But in most cases a photo shouldnt need a story to back it up. It has to speak for itself.

9. Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. Ansel Adams Even one of the masters in photography, Ansel Adams, didnt expect to get more than 12 great photographs each year. How can anyone expect more? Take a look at your last year in photos do you really see 12 photos that stand out from the rest?

10. It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. Timothy Allen On editing photos Editing photos can often be the most difficult but also the most satisfying part. Sometimes taking a quick look at all the photos and then going away for a while before taking a closer look lends a fresh eye to your viewing. You may see things you did not notice previously. Stepping away from the mass of photos can make certain images stand out in your minds eye, leaving a memorable impression that can characterize a good photo. What photography quotes do you think everyone should know?

11. We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect.... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. - Aaron Siskind 12. Photographers are lousy editors. - Maggie Sherwood 13. The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. - Minor White, On Photography by Susan Sontag ,

14. A photographer is like a fish, he lays thousands of eggs hoping that one will grow to maturity - Anonymous 15. It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself. - Clarence John Laughlin 16. Notebook. No photographer should be without one! - Ansel Adams 17. I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. - Alfred Eisenstaedt, Great Images of the 20th Century : The Photographs That Define Our Times by Kelly Knauer (Editor) 18. As a fledgling street photographer strolling up and down the streets of cities, I quickly became aware of Time and its erosive power. My early photographs focused almost exclusively on the signs of an older culture that was holding on for dear life. I'd photograph seltzer bottles in old wooden crates piled high in a truck, or the dusty windows of Jewish bread shops, or old men building February fires on the beaches of Coney Island. My interest was more than documentary, for it seemed to me that what was about to vanish was important and irreplaceable, and frankly, I wanted my photographs to offer, in some manner, the power of resuscitation. Actually, I still do, though I no longer believe that photographs can prevent the homely past from being plowed under; rather, I believe that photographs - especially good photographs that compel our interest - help us to remember; and even more importantly, they help us to decide what is worth remembering. - John Rosenthal - Exhibition lecture, National Humanities Center

19. Most times, we look at objects for their utilitarian purpose. But as photographers, we regard them for their momentary visual appearance. Catherine Jo Morgan 20. The progress of a photographer can often be marked by the accumulated number of mistake he or she had made along the way. - Catherine Jo Morgan 21. Light meters read; photographers interpret. - Catherine Jo Morgan 22. I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. - James Nachtwey - on the question wheather he has changed much in ten years, "American Photo", 23. Ansel Adams in 1930 had been training to become a concert pianist while considering a career as a photographer. He decided, after seeing the photographs by Paul Strand, that "the camera, not the piano, would shape [his] destiny." His mother and aunt both pleaded, "Do not give up the piano! The camera cannot express the human soul!" To which Adams replied, "The camera cannot, but the photographer can." - Ansel Adams - in "Black & White Magazine for Collector of Fine Photography" 24. Having and camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter. - Claude Adams 25. You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. - Galen Rowell 26. There can't be two identical photographs in this world. Not even if it is from the same photographer. Anonymous 27. The photographer should suffer, not the audience. - Daniel Rubinstein

28. The difference bewteen the recorder photographer... and the artist photographer... is that the artist will, by experience and learning... force the camera to paint the imagination...the emotion... the concept and the intent... rather than faithfully and truthfully reproduce an unnatractive and unflattering record. Anonymous 29. I want to be known for the images I make rather then the words I write, otherwise I'd be a writer not a photographer. - Alex Korolkovas - When asked to submit a quote regarding photography to be a part of an exposition of his work. 30. The photographer was thought to be an acute but non-interfering observer a scribe, not a poet. But as people quickly discovered that nobody takes the same picture of the same thing, the supposition that cameras furnish an impersonal, objective image yielded to the fact that photographs are evidence not only of whats there but of what an individual sees, not just a record but an evaluation of the world. It became clear that there was not just a simple activity called seeing (recorded by, aided by cameras) but photograph ic seeing, which was both a new way for people to see and a new activity for them to perform. - Susan Sontag, On Photography by Susan Sontag 31. To us, the difference between the photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle. - Susan Sontag, On Photography by Susan Sontag

32. As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the selfconsciousness of photography-as-art. - Susan Sontag, On Photography by Susan Sontag 33. Available to all photographers free is the one light source given by a window which faces the north. It's a painterly light that any face or still life comes alive in. - Garry Camp Burdick - My work is listed on Google and hanging in the NPG- (Smithsonian). Using the light explained in my quote a portrait of Norman Rockwell. 34. Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My grandchildren astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives. - Minor White 35. Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A press the button, let George do the rest photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values. - Minor White 36. To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. - Berenice Abbott 37. I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my

own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer. - Alfred Eisenstaedt 38. I am not interested in showing my work to photographers any more, but to people outside the photo-clique. My pictures are not escapes from reality, but a contemplation of reality, so that I can experience life in a deeper way. Bruce Davidson 39. I profoundly believe that a photographer worthy of the name is first and foremost a human being, a person deeply concerned with the human predicament. Such a person will want to make his photography do a job of work for the particular cause he has espoused. To my mind it is this dedication which gives the photographer the moral right to stand in front of other humans with a camera in his hand. I consider any alternative an unwarranted imposition upon the rights and privacy of the subject. - Jozef Gross - A point of view: fact of feeling? 40. The uninvolved photojournalists pictures will at the very best serve to prop up the copy, at worst ruin it; the involved photographers work however will speak entirely for itself and will in no way profit by copy, though copy neatly added will not spoil such a picture; simply, it will not be read. - Jozef Gross - A point of view: fact of feeling? 41. What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of the camera. Some models get so professional they can send hours flirting with the camera itself while the poor photographer is reduced to the role of spectator. - Sam Haskins

42. How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography. []" Aaron Scharf 43. The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with which he can secure these everchanging combinations, he is then able to look on them again and again, and he has the further pleasure of pleasing others with the sight of things which he, with perhaps unusual opportunities, was able to see, which his friends would otherwise not ever be able to. - Frank Meadow Sutcliffe 44. A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographers strength is his ability to a ccurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it. - Edouard Boubat - from Photo by Boubat, 45. Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past. - Susan Sontag, On Photography by Susan Sontag , 46. What is a good photograph? I cannot say. A photograph is tied to the time, what is good today may be a clich tomorrow. The problem of the photographer is to discover his own language, a visual ABC. The picture represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera. This disease of our age is boredom and a good photographer must

combat it. The way to do this is by invention by surprise. When I say a good picture has surprise value I mean that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me. The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding clichs. Imitation is the greatest danger of the young photographer. - Alexey Brodovitch 47. When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in a particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable. - Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, 48. The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the type of pictures he takes best. What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think. - Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [ 49. The photographer, if he is to maintain his integrity must be responsible to himself, he must seek a public which will accept his vision, rather than pervert his vision to fit that public. Unfortunately many fine photographers never find this public and are virtually unemployable in the commercial field. - Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472] 50. The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than

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eight or ten years. - Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472] 51. One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late twenties to the early fifties what might have been the golden age of this speciality photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status. - John Szarkowski - Aperture, 13 March 1967 [cited in: Creative Camera January 1975, p. 4] 52. Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem. - Howard S. Becker Afterimage, May-June 1975 [cited in: Creative Camera October 1975, p. 329] 53. Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that language themselves (just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs). Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way. - Howard S. Becker - Afterimage, May-June 1975 [cited in: Creative Camera October 1975, p. 329] 54. Logicians tell us that two Negatives make an Affirmative. Will somebody say how many Negatives make a Photographer ? - Anonymous - Punch, 12 October 1872 [cited in: Creative Camera January 1970, p. 4]

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55. I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck. - Dorothea Lange 56. I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. - Robert Mapplethorpe 57. A photographer is nothing without his camera. - Eddie Cohen 58. The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves. - Graciela Iturbide - Thanks to ExposureCompensation.com 59. Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace. - Robert Adams - "Beauty in Photography" 1996 60. ...the only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker. - Robert Adams - "Beauty in Photography" 1996

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61. It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. - Timothy Allen - On editing photos Taken from interview (see http://blog.travellerspoint.com/90/) 62. Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments. - Alex Tehrani 63. A photographer can sit at the edge of paradise and may only see unframeable beauty. A child with their parents camera will run through paradise capturing all that they see as they see it, filled with the untangled imagination of youth. Ryan Learoyd - www.shuttergoclick.com

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