INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
One of my biggest influences in my photography is the comfort and knowledge that we have many great past-masters of photography to draw inspiration from. Some of the quotes are from famous photographers and others are not; in fact some are not even photographers at all, but are bonafide observers of art in general. Either way, I hope you find these quotes as inspirational as I do.
Some of the quotes below can also be found at appropriate spots throughout this website
“Photography is, for me. a spontaneous impulse coming from an attentive eye, which captures the moment and its eternity. ”
Henri Cartier Bresson (1908-2004) - French Photographer/Artist
“You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”
Joel Meyerowitz (1938-present) - American Photographer
“Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.”
Saul Leiter (1923-2013) - American Photographer/Painter
“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) - American Photographer
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) - English Psychoanalyst
“I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.”
Saul Leiter (1923-2013) - American Photographer/Painter
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Spanish Painter/Sculptor
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again.
You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Spanish Painter/Sculptor
“If you don’t draw from within then you are not really creating.”
Joe Cornish - (1958-present) - English Landscape Photographer
The purpose of illustration is to say: “Here’s what you would have seen had you been there.”
The purpose of art is to say: “Here’s what you would not have seen had I not shown it to you, even if you were standing next to me.”
Guy Tal (current) - Israeli (America) Photographic Artist/Writer
“In order to build a career and be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious.
I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.”
Saul Leiter (1923-2013) - American Photographer/Painter
"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - Theoretical Physicist
“Your Art is not about how many people like your work.
Your art is about if your heart and your soul likes your work”
Rupi Kaur (1992-present) Canadian Poet/Photographer/Illustrator
“Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience”
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Austrian Composer
“Exposure occupies the mind while intuition frames the images.”
Minor White (1908-1976) American Photographer
“Of course it’s all luck”
Henri Cartier Bresson (1908-2004) - French Photographer/Artist
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