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Famous Photography Quotes

Artists and writers on photography

Famous photography quotes featuring the insights and opinions of well known writers and artists. How have cultural figures in other areas reacted to photography?

It [photography] is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. Lewis Carroll

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. John Steinbeck

Memory demands an image. Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. Susan Sontag

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing. Marcel Duchamp

I have always been very interested in photography. I have looked at far more photographs than I have paintings. Because their reality is stronger than reality itself. Francis Bacon

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. Pablo Picasso

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers- dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. Pablo Picasso

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. Pablo Picasso

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must... intervene as little as possible, so as not... to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses. Henri Matisse

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