Photography Gear Quotes

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. ~ Marius Vieth

Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside. ~ Lynsey Addario

If it doesn't have ambiguity, don't bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography - it's got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or it's not interesting to me. ~ Sally Mann

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. ~ Val Kilmer

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. ~ William S. Burroughs

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. ~ Roy Ascott

I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to. ~ Abbas Kiarostami

They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn't shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust. ~ Liz Welch

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc. ~ Francesca Woodman

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. ~ Eleanor Antin

My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so. ~ Brett Weston

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands. ~ John Dykstra

When it came time to die, we knew and went to deep yards where we lay down and our bones turned to brass. We were picked over. We were used to fix broken clocks, music boxes; our pelvises were fitted onto pinions, our spines soldered into cast works. Our ribs were fitted as gear teeth and tapped and clicked like tusks. This is how, finally, we were joined. ~ Paul Harding

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information. ~ Sally Mann

I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for. ~ Erica Tazel

do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free ~ Betty Poluk

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. ~ Matthew Modine

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell. ~ Edvard Munch

That's the business, Iris. It's a ruth- less industry. People's love lasts but one season. ~ Eugenia Melian

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal. ~ John Dunning

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography. ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile. ~ Paul Caponigro

I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school. ~ Kathleen Hanna

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~ Matthew Knisely

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. ~ Paul Gauguin

Photography begins not in the camera but in the
mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things clearly and differently, and
sharing that vision with others. I have developed my
vision and my photographic craft in order to bring
the beauty of nature to light in a fresh way that
can inspire and nourish people. ~ Bill Atkinson

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. ~ Garry Winogrand

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money. ~ Sebastiao Salgado

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart. ~ Arnold Newman

Travel , photography and wilderness are my addictions....
And I'm happy with that... ~ Kedar Dhepe

It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life. ~ Helmut Newton

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen. ~ Jay Maisel

Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc. ~ Ellen Key

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready. ~ John Caudwell

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. ~ Harold Eugene Edgerton

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it. ~ Graeme Le Saux

The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention. ~ Helmut Gernsheim

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. ~ Robert Adams

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions ... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief. ~ Taryn Simon

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel? ~ Duane Michals

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it. ~ William Monahan

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way. ~ Arlo Guthrie

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you. ~ Annie Leibovitz

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his son]. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations. ~ Clyde Butcher