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Quotes about Photography

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Quotes about Photography

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Author: Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 9.67 | Fav

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Author: Susan Oliver (1932 - 1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 61 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 253 | Rank: 0 | Fav

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Author: Emile Zola (1840 - 1902) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 869 | Rank: 9.80 | Fav

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Author: Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 176 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

Author: Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 208 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're...

Author: Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 188 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

Author: Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 194 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Author: Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 178 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil along with the evil of racism with a camera.

Author: Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 1.00 | Fav

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Author: Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 181 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: Strobes only explode when lots of people are watching.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 298 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: The success of an assignment is inversely proportional to the product of its importance and the number of people watching.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 312 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: The greater a photographer's excitement, the greater its chance of fogging film, scratching prints, and deleting files.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 1103 | Rank: 9.33 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: No matter how long you've had a convention for marking film holders, you will forget it when exposing the once-in-a-lifetime shot.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 322 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: Lenses are attracted back to their source - hard rocks.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 272 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: When the level of anticipation is highest, this sensor causes the back to flip open exposing the film.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 282 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: Camera are designed with a built-in sensor, that senses the anticipation to develop the film.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 337 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Murphy's photography laws: When you shoot the night away and never have to stop. Your film did not roll on to the take up reel.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 296 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Your batteries will always go dead during a long exposure so with the shutter open.

Author: Edward A. Murphy (1918-1990) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 290 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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