#photo

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#back #cannot #come #continually #contrivance

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#challenges #china #did #discern #eye

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#bruce #felt #had #herb #i

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive. ↗

— Barbara Cook

#back #i #i remember #look #photographs

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. ↗

— Edward Weston

#photography #art

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#enigma #photography #art

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#perseverance #photography #art

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#news #novelty #photography #shock #art

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

#admire #embrace #key #know #light

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it. ↗

— Nicole Eggert

#directing #editing #energy #fans #i