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June 2010There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.Ansel Adams
May 2010If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.Richard Avedon
April 2010Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.Sam Abell
March 2010Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.Berenice Abbott
February 2010People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that!Larry in Groundhog Day
January 2010No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.Ken Rockwell
December 2009The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking..Brooks Atkinson
November 2009The artist photographer knows that there is a great difference between seeing a scene and producing a photographic equivalent..Nathan Knobler
October 2009Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.Ansel Adams
September 2009I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times. I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.Elliott Erwitt
August 2009Looking at something changes it.Werner Heisenberg
July 2009When you photograph people in colour you are photographing their clothes. When you photograph them in B&W, you photograph their souls.Ted Grant
June 2009If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.Lewis Hine
May 2009Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person -- until they try.Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 2009There's three key things for good photography: the camera,lighting, and... Photoshop.Tyra Banks
March 2009Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people's souls.Francis Bacon
February 2009Memory demands an image.Bertrand Russell
January 2009It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for the picture.Andreas Feininger
December 2008Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.Ansel Adams
November 2008I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!Jenny Agutter
October 2008Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.Edward Weston
September 2008In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.Henri Cartier-Bresson
August 2008The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.Dorothea Lange
July 2008Photography is truth.Jean-Luc Godard
June 2008A good photograph is knowing where to stand.Ansel Adams
May 2008When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.Graeme Le Saux
April 2008 To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. Henri Cartier-Bresson
March 2008 All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.Richard Avedon
February 2008 'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' Lewis Carroll
January 2008 Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? Groucho Marx
December 2007 A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought. Samuel Palmer
November 2007Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
October 2007 The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange
September 2007 In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag
August 2007 I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better. Norman Parkinson
July 2007 "Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?" Pablo Picasso
June 2007 Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. Man Ray
May 2007 "They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum." Tallulah Bankhead
April 2007 "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
March 2007 "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." Dorothea Lange
February 2007 "The camera cannot lie, but it cannot help being selective." Anonymous
January 2007 "The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart." St. Exupery.
December 2006 "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius

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