Quotes or Thoughts about Photography

Sep 9 21:59 UTC 2007

Here are some quotes about photography that I came across [on a
scrapbooking web/ blog site]: 

Photography:

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a
camera."  Dorothea Lange

"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the
true lens of the  camera."  Yousuf Karsh

"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad
photograph only  less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."
 Susan Sontag

"The camera can photograph thought." 
Dirk Bogarde
 
"Good photographic composition is merely the strongest way of seeing."
Edward Weston
 
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when
they have  vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them
come back again." Henri Cartier-Bresson

"The instrument is not the camera but the photographer." 
Eve Arnold
 
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not
in us, how would  we ever recognize it?"  Ernst Haas

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it
still."  Dorothea Lange

response 2 of 2:

Jul 22 16:55 UTC 2008

"Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots
which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their
parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, established-within-the-photo
lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of
life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives,
our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road. All of
it inside endless and beginningless emptiness. Pitiful forms of ignorance."

- Jack Kerouac (On the Road)