Leica Photography Quotes & Sayings

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see. — Ernst Haas

Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest. — Andreas Feininger

It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them. — Michael Kenna

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it. — Sam Walton

It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view. — Mike Medavoy

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters. — George Takei

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. — Ayn Rand

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

First of all, a**hole, I'm not into voodoo and if I was I wouldn't use it for this. Second, we came over here for a reason and we aren't leaving until you hear us out. Jennifer was good and pissed. Finding a Nyhiya was supposed to be a happy time. Not this bulls***. Stupid Alpha males. — Shakuita Johnson

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs. — Alexey Brodovitch

You just have to live and life will give you pictures. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. — Blaise Pascal

If people in the Arab world knew what was happening in this place, the hatred against the U.S. would be heavily watered, and the accusation that the U.S. is helping and working together with dictators in our countries would be cemented. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I bought a backscrabber. One more reason to have no need for a relationship. — Martijn Benders