Inspirational Quotes?

I think this site might be worth a link www.photoquotes.com/

There is some inspiring stuff here. selection below:

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. - Don McCullin,

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. - Ansel Adams

There is no special way a photograph should look. - Garry Winogrand

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. - Eve Arnold

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture. - David Bailey

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph. - Bill Brandt,

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dared ... I am not interested in rules or conventions... photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved. - Bill Brandt

The first 10 000 shots are the worst. - Helmut Newton

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! - Jacques-Henri Lartigue (after taking his first photograph aged 6)

I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !" - Man Ray (1967)

I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an aesthetic surgeon !" - Man Ray

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. - Anonymous

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. - Brigitte Bardot

The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘"That’s nice." It’s the kiss of death. - Joe DiMaggio (the photographer, not the baseball player)

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told – Cindy Sherman

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Dear _______________ (an editor); In printing the photographs of the white-gowned Klan members I ran into considerable difficulty. There were several with uncovered faces and these faces were vividly dark in comparison to the white-white of the gowns that it was almost impossible to keep them from appearing black. I am terribly sorry. - W. Eugene Smith

Cheers

Phil