Stephen Walton Photography Workshops

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” – Destin Sparks

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

“Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” – Bruno Barbey

“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” – Andy Warhol

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” – Diane Arbus

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.” – Elliott Erwitt

“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” – George Eastman

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.” – Irving Penn

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams

“Photography is a love affair with life.” – Burk Uzzle

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” – Ansel Adams

“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” – Alfred Stieglitz

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” – Susan Sontag

“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” – Susan Meiselas

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” – Ansel Adams

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

“The Earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.” – Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” – Bruno Barbey

“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” – Ansel Adams

“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

“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

“Photography is the art of frozen time…the ability to store emotion and feelings within a frame.” – Meshack Otieno

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” – Gilles Peress

“The camera is my tool. Through it, I give a reason to everything around me.” – André Kertész

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.” – Salman Rushdie