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Photography Quote – Gregory Crewdson
“Every artist has a story to tell and the impossible task as an artist is to express that story visually.”
- Gregory Crewdson
Photography Quote – Joel Peter Witkin
“Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn’t stop on the sixth day.”
- Joel Peter Witkin
Photography Quote – Robert Mapplethorpe
“Sell the public flowers… things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.”
- Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
Photography Quote – Paul Strand
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”
- Paul Strand (1890-1976)
Photography Quote – Helmut Newton
“The photographs don’t arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.”
- Helmut Newton (1920-2004)
Photography Quote – Cecil Beaton
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
- Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)
Photography Quote – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Photography Quote – Richard Avedon
“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.”
-Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
Photography Quote – Elliott Erwitt
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
-Elliott Erwitt
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Photography Quote – Jacques-Henri Lartigue