Favourite Photography quotes

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

- Brooks Anderson, 1951, "Once Around the Sun"

A photograph can be as striking and as haunting as a great painting or a fine poem.

- Anonymous , Handbook annual, 1988

If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event...what kind of film would you use?

- Anonymous

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

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, In "Face," (London), Dec 1984

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

- Ruth Bernhard

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

- Galen Rowell

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

- George Eastman