#photograph

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#execution #expression #infinite #interpretation #medium

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#extracted #eye #i #i think #interested

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#appear #chance #comes #excites #eye

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#amateur #i #photographer #writer

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#creating #images #like #more #much

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

— Diane Arbus

#know #less #more #photograph #secret

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#always #did #favorite #favorite things #felt

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#i #me #more #people #photograph

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in. ↗

— David Bailey

#character #chekhov #depends #film #getting

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#cambridge #camera #classes #days #even