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Photography Quotes

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Wilko van de Kamp
Sep 22, 2014
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Quotes are cool, especially the ones about photography. They say that three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favourite quotes. These are some of mine.

I share some of my favourite quotes on my other site MountainQuotes.com, on my Twitter feed and of course in my books. When researching quotes for my upcoming photography book A View to Take Home, I found some of the ones below.

Let me know which ones you really relate to, and share them with me.

  • Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. (Aaron Siskind)

  • A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. (Dianne Arbus)

  • We don’t take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and minds. (Arnold Newman)

  • Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. (Ansel Adams)

  • Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m g…

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