QUOTATIONS

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
—Marc Riboud

At that moment you must care, breathe and love the universe – it’s not just about making a beautiful picture. I put my whole life into a single photograph.
—Fan Ho, Hong Kong photographer 1950’s – 1960’s

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
—Richard Avedon

“I am drawn to photographing real things rather than setup situations. I am more interested in what is than what isn’t.”
– Elliott Erwitt, 3/17/07. Quoted by B blog. Many thanks Blake.
http://hernanzenteno.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/to-be-or-not-to-be/

“There’s nothing more disturbing than a sharp picture of a fuzzy concept.”
Ansel Adams

“Ariadne, after we work on these negatives, maybe you could accompany me to the photo shop. I like to ask them for things they don’t have. That way we keep them entertained, no?”

—Manuel Álvarez Bravo
NUDES: THE BLUE HOUSE
editor, Ariadne Kimberly Hoque

It is funny how people prefer to quote other photogs instead of themselves. it is because you think it is more credible? Not for me I’m always suspicious of people quoting everybody else… ;)

Hi Yves. We are doing this for amusing and inspiration but generally a quote is used not because is more credible. Is used to give authority over some topic or argument. Furthermore, would be some weird to quote myself. Just for curiosity, what suspect you about us, the “quoters”, I mean, we are suspicious of what? Do you want share any quote of yourself?

Hi Yves. We are doing this for amusing and inspiration but generally a quote is used not because is more credible. Is used to give authority over some topic or argument. Furthermore, would be some weird to quote myself. Just for curiosity, what suspect you about us, the “quoters”, I mean, we are suspicious of what? Do you want share any quote of yourself?

I don’t know, Hernán, you have always seemed to me to be a rather suspicious character, quoting that skinhead Salgado and others. I mean what are you doing reading all those books and magazines and blogs? Are you a member of some sort of cabal intent on subverting our Western culture? You can’t fool us, Hernán, by omitting the accent over the “a” in your first name. We know you are an Argentine, Borgesian, intellectual.

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
― Julio Cortázar

Aha! Patricio! Another Argentine interloper disguised, this time, by an Irish surname!

Beware! We even have a Pope! :P

Quoting Herman Zentano: “We are doing this for amusing and inspiration” No kidding? I would have never guess, thank to quote. ;o)

John Sheckler, a former photographer for the Standard Times in New Bedford, Massachusetts, said this when asked how many photographers does it take to screw in a light bulb. – “Only one. However, it takes two editors and three reporters to decide if the bulb should be turned clockwise or counter clockwise or just shoved in.”

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
-George Bernard Shaw

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus

“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”
― William S. Burroughs

“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

Hi Patricio, how can forget that quote of Julio? Just in the nail.
Lassen Perry, I think that I could be a friend of Mr. Sheckler. And, do you know in what context was said the quote of Gandhi? Robert Fulton, I don’t knew that phrase of Riboud, many thanks for share it.
Yves, you give me a good idea. I can put my quote in my presentation cards but in singular: “I am doing this for amusing and inspiration”. Now that I think well, that could be my epitaph too if someday I can have someone that pay for it. By the way, if you want to quote me please use my correct name, Hernan Zenteno, not Herman Zentano.
As Albert Camus wrote in some of his carnets, I suppose this can be translated to photography, “write is easy when we have something to tell”. And another more general, but good too: “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Me too I have a good quote: "Culture is like butter, the less you have the more you spread. :p

I thought that was a Marlon Brando quote.

How do you know that it didn’t stole it from me? ;)

Yves – yes, you are correct. I quote others because I am suspicious of anything I have to say.

“He just liked taking pictures of me.”
—Eleanor Callahan

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/eleanor-callahan-photographic-muse-for-harry-callahan-dies-at-95.html?_r=0

Barry this one could have come from Nick Ut as well. One day I asked him why he post so many photos of himself on his FB account. He answer me: “paparazzi takes thousand of pictures of me and ask me all the time to post it so I just want to please them.”
ha! ha! I like the guy…

“If you want to see the invisible carefully observe the visible.”
—The Talmud

“You know, so often it’s just sticking around and being there, remaining there, not swooping out in a cloud of dust: sitting down on the ground with people, letting children look at your camera with their dirty, grimy little hands, and putting their fingers on the lens, and you just let them, because you know that if you behave in a generous manner, you are apt to receive it, you know?”
- Dorothea Lange

“…to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.” – W. Eugene Smith

“Journalists should be by their very nature anarchists, people who want to point out things that are not generally approved of. It’s by criticizing that society that humanity has made progress. "
- Philip Jones Griffiths

“It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.” -Paul Strand