gurdymonkey | Cool photography quotes.

"“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” - Dorothy Parker (OK, not a photographer, but it's an apt quote.)

"Photograph what makes you happy." - Sean Tucker (and evidently a few others, but can't be sure who said it first.)

https://www.seantucker.photography/

If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough.” — Robert Capa

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/robert-capa/

"There are no rules for good photographs. There are only good photographs." - Ansel Adams. (Easy for you to say, Ansel. Easy for you to say.)

Left, Portrait of Tom Kobayashi, Manzanar RelocationCenter, 1943. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/manz/item/2002695953/
Right, Tetons and the Snake River, 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams

“If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” — Don McCullin

https://www.howardgreenberg.com/exhibitions/don-mccullin

"“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/dorothea-lange?all/all/all/all/0

"Photography helps people to see." - Berenice Abbott

https://thewomensstudio.net/2018/04/30/berenice-abbott/ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265232

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” — Diane Arbus.)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/306313 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/651804

“It’s more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera.” - Sebastiao Salgado

https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/s/a/l/g/salgado_sebastiao_2007_6_5_433370_displaysize.jpg and https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/s/a/l/g/salgado_sebastiao_239_1988_459042_displaysize.jpg