Good Photography Quotes

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

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 extraordinary.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.

This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

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.

I like taking photographs, because I like life.

And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.

Art films aren't necessarily photography.

It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

Good photography is unpretentious.

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature.

This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense.

It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.