Top Photography Quotes
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman
He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
John Sexton
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
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I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Ray Harryhausen 
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I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
Ben Shahn
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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
John Sexton
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I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
Ben Shahn
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
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With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Ernst Haas
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson
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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Edward Weston
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