Quotes by some photographers

1. The photograph is probably of all the art forms more accessible and more rewarding. It can record faces or events or tell a story. It may surprise you, entertain and educate. It can capture and communicate emotions and document any detail quickly and accurately. John Hedgecoe

2. Often the composition is really the best way that a photographer has available to show the complexity of life; the structure of an image can suggest the form that becomes beauty. Robert Adams

3. Photographing is to recognize at the same time and in a fraction of a second a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact. It puts on the same line head aims, the eye and the heart. It is a way of life. Henri Cartier-Bresson

4. The only thing to which they are linked is my camera, small thing, but enough for me to not be completely unhappy. Robert Capa

5. You can lie with photographs. You can even tell the truth, insofar as it is extremely difficult. The cliché has it that the photograph is a mirror of the world and I think we need to spill: the world is the photographer's mirror. Ferdinando Scianna

6. The important thing is not the camera, but the eye. Alfred Eisenstaedt

7. The desire to discover, the urge to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography. Helmut Newton

8. For me photography is to suggest, not insist or explain. Brassaï (Gyula fishermen)

9. There is a big difference between taking a picture and take a picture. Robert Heinecken

10. If the photo is not good, It means that you were not close enough. Robert Capa

11. It seems that photos can be either good or bad and everything is a bit 'left to chance, It is not so. Sometimes they arise from nothing or that everything is the same thing. I try to photograph thoughts. The object is useful for me to convey what it means. Nothing is by chance, the White, the black. As in the famous photos of Scanno: the black figure waiting white. (…) Mario Giacomelli

12. I always thought that photography is as a joke: if you have to explain not come good. Ansel Adams

13. After all photography is a more expeditious way to make a sculpture. Robert Mapplethorpe

14. When I saw for the first time the pictures taken by the Americans in the Nazi concentration camps something in me hardened forever, and something keeps crying even now. Susan Sontag

15. A photograph is a secret about a secret: It reveals most and least makes it clear. Diane Arbus

16. Photographs can reach eternity through the moment. Henri Cartier-Bresson

17. The photographs are our memory over time, when our memories begin to get lost in the passage of time. Silvana Stremiz

18. The camera is a simple tool, even the most stupid can use it, the challenge is to create through it that combination between truth and beauty called art. It 'a search as spiritual. I am seeking truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect shape of a spiral on the beach, in the curve of a female back, in the texture of an old tree trunk, and also in other forms of reality elusive. Isabel Allende (Portrait in Sepia, 2001)

19. When well done, photography is interesting. When it is done very well, It becomes irrational and even magic. It has nothing to do with the will or the conscious desire of the photographer. When photography happens, It happens effortlessly, as a gift that should not be questioned or analyzed. Elliott Erwitt

20. The beauty and the devil are the same. Robert Mapplethorpe

21. Ten photographers in front of the same topic produce ten different images, because, if it is true that photography translates the real, it is revealed according to the eye of the beholder. Gisele Freund