{"id":481,"date":"2009-05-11T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2009-05-11T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T22:01:15","slug":"some-of-my-favourite-quotes-based-on-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/some-of-my-favourite-quotes-based-on-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of my favourite quotes based on photography."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will start with probably my favourite photography based quote of all time.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Some people&#8217;s photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Helmut Newton. Go Helmut! <\/p>\n<p>And now some more.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.&#8221; <\/em>&#8211; Anne Geddes.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.&#8221; <\/em>&#8211; Ansel Adams<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she&#8217;s a photographer. Ooh, you took a black and white picture of a lawn chair and its shadow and developed it at Sav-On. You must be so brooding and deep.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Stewie Griffin, Family Guy.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Ansel Adams.<\/p>\n<p><em>If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn&#8217;t need to lug around a camera.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Lewis Hine.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When people ask what equipment I use &#8211; I tell them my eyes.&#8221; <\/em> &#8211; Anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I never have taken a picture I&#8217;ve intended. They&#8217;re always better or worse.&#8221; <\/em> &#8211; Diane Arbus.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don&#8217;t have the film.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Stephen Wright.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Garry Winogrand. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Amateurs talk about equipment. Professionals talk about photos.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Anonymous <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Anonymous <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I have a very good memory, but it&#8217;s short. Thank god for photography.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; John E. Burkowski<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If your pictures aren&#8217;t good enough, you&#8217;re not close enough.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Robert Capa.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Harold Feinstein<\/p>\n<p>A lot of these quotes I have collected over the past few years, but there are thousands more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoquotes.com\/\" target=\"blank\">http:\/\/www.photoquotes.com\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will start with probably my favourite photography based quote of all time. &#8220;Some people&#8217;s photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.&#8221; &#8211; Helmut Newton. Go Helmut! 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