Citate despre fotografie

Dupa ce am pus Legile lui Murphy pe site, am gasit si cateva photo quotes,sa vedem cum gandesc,ce ideii au acesti fotografi mari despre fotografie. Se ofera cineva sa le traduca in limba romana :) ?

* A camera... is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" -Dorothea Lange
* I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. - Bernice Abbott
* Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself - Bernice Abbott
* Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs- Ansel Adams
* You don't take a photograph, you make it - Ansel Adams
* There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs - Ansel Adams
* Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. - Ansel Adams
* There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer - Ansel Adams
* When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silent. - Ansel Adams
* I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!- Ansel Adams
* A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept. - Ansel Adams
* Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field. - Peter Adams
* No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. - Robert Adams
* ...words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone. - William Albert Allard
* The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment. - Anonymous
* It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera. - Anonymous
* Pictures always should have a special story behind it or a special meaning to the photographer -Anonymous
* I can't sing, I can't paint and I can't write how I feel, so all I have left is photography to express myself. -Anonymous
* Photographs don’t lie, people do. - Anonymous - Slogan on the poster of the film "PROOF", Australia 1991) [source: www.imdb.com, Memorable quotes]
* Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. - Anonymous - [source: www.imdb.com , movie "One Hour Photo" USA, 2002, Memorable quotes]
* 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. - Anonymous
* The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. Anonymous
* :) Minolta makes the best bodies, Nikon makes the best lenses, Canon makes the best compromise. - My rich friend Bob who has all three systems.
* The camera captures light, our minds capture images.
* A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. - Diane Arbus : A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
* I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. - Diane Arbus : An Aperture Monograph by Diane Arbus, Stan Grossfeld
* I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. - Diane Arbus
* It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary. - David Bailey
* The photographic image... is a message without a code. - Roland Barthes
* :) While some people are afraid of of snakes, others have phobias about high places - I'm scared of long exposures. - Ralph Bartholomew
* The art of photography is to make that which seems unbeautiful, beautiful.. - Jenifer Barton
* My native language is Dutch, my second is photography. - Lieve Blanckaert
* Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! - Bill Brandt
* A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic. - Bill Brandt
* like to get emotion in a photo. I like it when people laugh at a picture - or react with tears. A sports image works when people don't have to read the caption. - Bernard Brault
* A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind. - Manuel Alvarez Bravo
* When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things. - Wynn Bullock
* If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough. - Robert Capa
* The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
* Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
* Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing a meditation. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
* Our best shoots are placed in our memory. They are simply there, somewhere .. and they represent our private archive... Nobody can touch .. nobody can see. - Massimo Conti
* Why Black & White? Because ... you know... B&W is like our life! Sometimes beautiful ... Sometimes awful. It's a sort of "ying and yang" ... and... just like our life ... in the middle you can find a large scale of greys. Massimo Conti
* Photography is like fishing. You go out in the morning with no idea of what the trip will bring. Sometimes luck is on your side and all your crab pots are full of prime Lobsters. Other times you get nothing. - Bob Croxford
* Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. - Imogen Cunningham.

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