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i really miss Susan Sontag in this list..
"…to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude."
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Great quotes. I will think of these in my own shooting. Thanks for posting. :)
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This is a great post.
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
Robert Adams
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thanks for posting that, it was quite educational.
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'A good photographer takes 100 shots and keeps ten. A great photographer takes a 100 shots and keeps just one.'
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It's cheesy as all hell, but I've always been fond of one by Gretzky:
'You miss 100% of the shots you never take"
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Wayne Gretzky was talking about ice hockey there, not photography. But I suppose it can work.
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P^2 - Paul edited this topic 18 months ago.
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Really? I'm pretty sure he's most widely known for his large-format landscape photography. I can't imagine why he'd be talking about hockey.
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He's an upstanding fellow, a fine hockey player, and still hauls in multi-millions per year. But I doubt he would recognize a large-format landscape camera even if it was labeled by a sign with big letters and small words.
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We must be thinking of different Wayne Gretzkys :P
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"The best camera is the one that's with you" - Chase Jarvis
Don't forget to whip out your cell phone and take some pics, you never know what you might capture!
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Quote number four is the reason I can't stop doing Project365, even though it's been four years since I started it.
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Missing my favorite:
"Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises"
I believe it's from Diane Arbus, but my Google-fu fails me.
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"He will take his camera and ride off in search of new evidence that his city, even in her most drunken and disorderly and pathetic moments, is beautiful."
- William McCleery on Weejee
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This quote changed my life. :)
"Photography...it's the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody with a point-and-shoot camera can take a competent picture. But it's the hardest medium in which to have, to express, some kind of personal vision. Because there is no touch, there is no hand, there is no physicality. The fact that you CAN have something that's recognizable from 50 feet across the gallery as a Diane Arbus or an Irving Penn...the fact that you can have recognizable authorship means they really have done something." ~ Chuck Close, in the documentary Smash His Camera
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"Photography...it's the easiest medium in ..." that's artistic vision at its finest... (Thanks for the quote)
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"Love, like art, returns in measure the emotion one carries into it." -Edward Weston
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Thanks for posting!
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"4. “Nothing happens when you sit at home. I 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"
My fav!
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"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself." Diane Arbus
Always a fave of mine.
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"Say cheese!" - my mom.
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"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." - Robert Capa
Words I live by. Also words Robert Capa died by after getting too close to a land mine in Indochina.
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@dmitriyk re Capa : +1
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"f8 and be there" - anon
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I have a list of my favourite ones here: www.photoblog.ie/2011/05/25/photography-quotes/
Including
Your camera takes nice pictures”
“Thanks, your mouth makes nice compliments”
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera” – Lewis Hine
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Re: the Hine quote
Well, I can tell the story in words. But it's a different story than when I use my camera. ;)
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