What Photography Experts Said About Photography

By: Team @ PicBackMan

“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you

photograph” – Andre Kertesz

“There are always two people in every picture: the

photographer and the viewer.” - Ansel Adams

“If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close

enough” - Robert Capa

“Twelve significant photographs in any one year

is a good crop.” – Ansel Adams

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates

the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”

– Imogen Cunningham

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” - Ansel Adams

“I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you

have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.”

– Anonymous

“The world just does not fit conveniently into the format

of a 35mm camera.” - W. Eugene Smith

“Photography is love affair with life.”

- Burk Uzzle

“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is

about how that thing looks photographed.”

- Garry Winogrand

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in

yourself, for what we see is what we are.” - Ernst Haas

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”

- Berenice Abbott

“Every other artist begin with a blank canvas, a piece of paper… the photographer begins with the finished

product.” - Edward Steichen

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by

holding it still” – Dorothea Lange

“I like photographs which leave something to the

imagination” – Fay Godwin

A photographer went to a socialite dinner party in New York, as he entered the front door, the host said “I love your pictures –

they’re wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera” He said nothing until dinner was

finished, then; he said “That was a wonderful dinner, you must have a terrific stove”.

– Sam Haskiins.