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My mom Innocenza in 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photography Quotes, aphorisms, quotations, ideas, opinions and thoughts on photography, images and visual art by English-culture.com and Carl William Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the most beautiful, serene and smiling photographs of my mother unfortunately remind me that she is no longer here, and therefore generate in me a great nostalgia and a deep tragic emotion.<\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When he speaks of the dead, Jung means the dead. And they are present in the images, they continue to live.<\/span>
\nSonu Shamdasani<\/span><\/p>\n

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

The image of life is but the negative of that photograph that will only be developed by death.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The photographic image… is a message without a code.<\/span>
\nRoland Barthes<\/span><\/p>\n

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. <\/span>
\nJohn Berger<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography is always poetic as it reminds us of past situations, emotions, feelings, distress or disappointments far away in time and space; its strength is to revive in our memory a world that no longer exists and therefore necessarily melancholic and evocative, so it is similar to poetry that seeks with words to obtain the same romantic effects on our sterile existence.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. <\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. <\/span>
\nRobert Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours. <\/span>
\nJames Lalropui Keivom<\/span><\/p>\n

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! <\/span>
\nTed Grant<\/span><\/p>\n

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. <\/span>
\nDorothea Lange<\/span><\/p>\n

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. <\/span>
\nMinor White<\/span><\/p>\n

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes and aphorisms on photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. <\/span>
\nW. Eugene Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. <\/span>
\nEudora Welty<\/span><\/p>\n

The camera can photograph thought. <\/span>
\nDirk Bogarde<\/span><\/p>\n

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don’t find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. <\/span>
\nWilliam Albert Allard<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. <\/span>
\nEdward Steichen<\/span><\/p>\n

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.” <\/span>
\nJohn Loengard<\/span><\/p>\n

A photograph does not simply capture a moment of reality, but becomes a communicative interaction between the past and the present that expresses the mood and deepest emotions of the person observing it.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. <\/span>
\nRichard Avedon<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographs can reach eternity through the moment.<\/span>
\nHenri Cartier-Bresson<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. <\/span>
\nJohn Steinbeck<\/span><\/p>\n

The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country’s uniform was the one never-failing consolation. <\/span>
\nLouis Fabian Bachrach<\/span><\/p>\n

The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aphorisms<\/a>
Aphorisms on photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks. <\/span>
\nHenri Cartier-Bresson<\/span><\/p>\n

There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don’t be bitter because you can’t record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! <\/span>
\nDeGriff<\/span><\/p>\n

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. <\/span>
\nUsman B. Asif<\/span><\/p>\n

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. <\/span>
\nRichard Avedon<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography always has artistic, communicative, semiological, poetic, psychological, philosophical and sociological values, it’s just that not everyone can or wants to understand its connotations.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. <\/span>
\nHarold Evans<\/span><\/p>\n

You don’t take a photograph, you make it. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. <\/span>
\nTony Benn<\/span><\/p>\n

The common denominator of all the photos is always time, the time that slips away between the fingers, between the eyes, the time of things, of people, the time of lights and emotions, a time that will never be the same again .<\/span>
\nJeanloup Sieff<\/span><\/p>\n

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.<\/span>
\nBruno Barba<\/span><\/p>\n

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. <\/span>
\nRuth Bernhard<\/span><\/p>\n

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. <\/span>
\nRobert Brault<\/span><\/p>\n

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don’t think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won’t take an interest in it. <\/span>
\nJohn Loengard<\/span><\/p>\n

I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. <\/span>
\nMary Ellen Mark<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not a particularly verbose person. I think that’s why I like taking pictures… they speak for themselves. <\/span>
\nJeb Dickerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. <\/span>
\nEdward Steichen<\/span><\/p>\n

\"C.W.<\/a>
C.W. Brown with his father Luciano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. <\/span>
\nHenri Cartier Bresson<\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u201cphotograph\u201d literally translated from Greek means \u201cdrawing with light\u201d. Photography is in fact closely connected with light and the creation of images.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. <\/span>
\nHenri Cartier Bresson<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. <\/span>
\nHenri Cartier-Bresson<\/span><\/p>\n

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera. <\/span>
\nLewis Hine<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. <\/span>
\nSam Abbel<\/span><\/p>\n

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this \u2014 as in other ways \u2014 they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. <\/span>
\nJohn Berger<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. <\/span>
\nWynn Bullock<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. <\/span>
\nDuane Michals<\/span><\/p>\n

The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.<\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.<\/span>
\nRalph Hattersley<\/span><\/p>\n

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.<\/span>
\nDiane Arbus<\/span><\/p>\n

The effect that photography generates is precisely that of finally making visible things and social environments that were previously, guiltily or not, ignored, and consequently “neglected”.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.<\/span>
\nDestin Sparks<\/span><\/p>\n

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.<\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.<\/span>
\nAlfred Stieglitz<\/span><\/p>\n

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A young Carl William Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.<\/span>
\nRobert Frank<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever\u2026 It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.<\/span>
\nAaron Siskind<\/span><\/p>\n

We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.<\/span>
\nRalph Hattersley<\/span><\/p>\n

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.<\/span>
\nAnnie Leibovitz<\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.<\/span>
\nUnknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography for me is not looking, it\u2019s feeling. If you can\u2019t feel what you\u2019re looking at, then you\u2019re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.<\/span>
\nDon McCullin<\/span><\/p>\n

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.<\/span>
\nEdward Steichen<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it\u2019s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.<\/span>
\nPaul Caponigro<\/span><\/p>\n

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.<\/span>
\nAndy Warhol<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.<\/span>
\nDiane Arbus<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, photography is an art of observation. It\u2019s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place\u2026 I\u2019ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.<\/span>
\nElliott Erwitt<\/span><\/p>\n

The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.<\/span>
\nScott Lorenzo<\/span><\/p>\n

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it\u2019s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.\u201d<\/span>
\nEve Arnold<\/span><\/p>\n

A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.<\/span>
\nDorothea Lange<\/span><\/p>\n

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.<\/span>
\nSam Abell<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t trust words. I trust pictures.<\/span>
\nGilles Peress<\/span><\/p>\n

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn\u2019t photograph them.<\/span>
\nDiane Arbus<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.<\/span>
\nMarc Riboud<\/span><\/p>\n

Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

Photography is truth.<\/span>
\nJean-Luc Godard<\/span><\/p>\n

The camera makes you forget you\u2019re there. It\u2019s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.<\/span>
\nAnnie Leibovitz<\/span><\/p>\n

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.<\/span>
\nLinda McCartney<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/a>
Mary and the horses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.<\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.<\/span>
\nDiane Arbus<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don\u2019t have to explain things with words.<\/span>
\nElliott Erwitt<\/span><\/p>\n

One doesn\u2019t stop seeing. One doesn\u2019t stop framing. It doesn\u2019t turn off and turn on. It\u2019s on all the time.<\/span>
\nAnnie Leibovitz<\/span><\/p>\n

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that\u2019s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.<\/span>
\nKarl Lagerfeld<\/span><\/p>\n

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.<\/span>
\nIrving Penn<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.<\/span>
\nMatt Hardy<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, photography is an art of observation. It\u2019s about finding something interesting an ordinary place\u2026 I\u2019ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.<\/span>
\nElliott Erwitt<\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t take a photograph, you make it.<\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

When people ask me what equipment I use \u2013 I tell them my eyes.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

I wish that all of nature\u2019s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.<\/span>
\nAnnie Leibovitz<\/span><\/p>\n

I never have taken a picture I\u2019ve intended. They\u2019re always better or worse.<\/span>
\nDiane Arbus<\/span><\/p>\n

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.<\/span>
\nRichard Avedon<\/span><\/p>\n

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.<\/span>
\nSusan Sontag<\/span><\/p>\n

I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.<\/span>
\nWayne Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they\u2019re my friends. I\u2019ve never met most of them or I don\u2019t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.<\/span>
\nBruce Gilden<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.<\/span>
\nJim Richardson<\/span><\/p>\n

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I\u2019d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.<\/span>
\nAnnie Leibovitz<\/span><\/p>\n

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.<\/span>
\nSteve McCurry<\/span><\/p>\n

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.<\/span>
\nYousuf Karsh<\/span><\/p>\n

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don\u2019t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.<\/span>
\nSusan Meiselas<\/span><\/p>\n

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.<\/span>
\nTony Benn<\/span><\/p>\n

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.<\/span>
\nAlfred Eisenstaedt<\/span><\/p>\n

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.<\/span>
\nEllen Von Unwerth<\/span><\/p>\n

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.<\/span>
\nPeter Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A barman at work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what\u2019s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don\u2019t work out, just take another shot.<\/span>
\nUnknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Only photograph what you love.<\/span>
\nTim Walker<\/span><\/p>\n

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.<\/span>
\nAugust Sander<\/span><\/p>\n

When I photograph, what I\u2019m really doing is seeking answers to things.<\/span>
\nWynn Bullock<\/span><\/p>\n

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.<\/span>
\nYousuf Karsh<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don\u2019t even amount to a couple of hours.<\/span>
\nJames Lalropui Keivom<\/span><\/p>\n

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I\u2019m going to take tomorrow.<\/span>
\nImogen Cunningham<\/span><\/p>\n

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