Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Quotations From The World Of Photography

 Photographs don’t lie, people do. - Anonymous 

Photography teaches that how well you see has nothing to do with how well you see. - Anonymous
Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. - Anonymous

The only reason to do your own processing is quality. - Anonymous

Never show a customer two prints of different density. He will ask you to print a third with a density between the two. - Anonymous
A photograph can be as striking and as haunting as a great painting or a fine poem. - Anonymous - Handbook annual, 1988.

The ultimate photgraphic camera will imprint a scene directly into a person's memory. - Anonymous

It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera. - Anonymous
Some of us cynics say that "the quickest way to make a million dollars in photography, is to start with two million dollars". - Anonymous
If you can't make a great photograph of a mundane subject, at least make a mundane photograph of a great subject! - Anonymous - an old photographic maxim

When you blame it on the work of art or the equpiment that produced the only thing that is ever changed by it is the artist. - Anonymous

A good photograph will make an uncommonly good image of common subjects. - Anonymous

Pictures always should have a special story behind it or a special meaning to the photographer. - Anonymous

Pictures hold life's experiences. And I feel that with every experience you learn something. Therefore, you learn something with every picture you take. - Anonymous

A photograph must say: "Here is what these people are like now." - Anonymous

I can't sing, I can't paint and I can't write how I feel, so all I have left is photography to express myself. - Anonymous

Everybody loves to have their picture took. Everybody. - Anonymous - Leon (Bernzy) Bernstein (movie character, played by Joe Pesci, "Public Eye, The" 1992) [source: www.imdb.com , Memorable quotes]

Unlike a painter, a photographer starts with something finished and works backward. - Anonymous

Billy Kwan: We’ll make a great team, old man. You for the words, me for the pictures. I can be your eyes. - Anonymous

Sy Parrish: Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. - Anonymous - [source: www.imdb.com , movie "One Hour Photo" USA, 2002, Memorable quotes]

The brave ones were shooting the enemy, the crazy ones were shooting film. - Anonymous

If a picture is worth taking it's certainly worth faking. - Anonymous
When one picks up ones camera and freezes a moment in time we all get a glimpse of ones soul - Anonymous

One...Two...Three...Photography! - Anonymous

Good photography speaks through silence. - Anonymous
I take pictures like Jimmy Page, and I play guitar like Ansel Adams. - Anonymous

The camera cannot lie, but it cannot help being selective. - Anonymous

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. - Anonymous
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. - Anonymous
When you use a camera, not as a machine but as an extension of your heart, you become one with your subject. - Anonymous

The type of photographs you make, the subjects you single out, reveal the person inside of you. How close you get to your subjects reveals how close you want to get. - Anonymous

I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. And by seeing we also begin to understand ourselves. - Anonymous
When we care, we will not forget. The picture in our head or the vivid printed picture will remind us. Without care, we would not remember, only see. - Anonymous
Of what use are lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight? - Anonymous

Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop. - Anonymous

Let your words be few, and your exposures many. - Anonymous

Photography is like a lemon, sour to some, but lemonade to others. - Anonymous

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don''t have the film. - Anonymous
My camera has helped to give me insight to truth. It has helped me to understand that change is wonderful and beneficial. - Anonymous