#photo

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without. ↗

— Edward Weston

#anything #best #cameras #extravagant #further

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step. ↗

— Kim Weston

#essence #eventually #formulating #going #ideas

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses. ↗

— Kim Weston

#behind #camera #easy #expose #go

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#angel #another #arrogant #bank #believe

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it. ↗

— Dara McGrath

#photography #art

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#expression #photography #self-expression #art

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself. ↗

— Andre Kertesz

#everything #feel #fixed #itself #lives

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy. ↗

— Peta Wilson

#being #better #going #photo #rather

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. ↗

— Thomas Wilson

#arts #collage #dilettante #i #photography

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

— Garry Winogrand

#described #fact #i #like #look