William Albert Allard famous quotes

03-16-2025

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
-- William Albert Allard

#Photography #Tools #Push Yourself
I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.
-- William Albert Allard

#Thinking #Discipline #Way
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
-- William Albert Allard

#Photography #Thinking #Interesting
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.
-- William Albert Allard

#Photography #People #Way
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
-- William Albert Allard

#Together #Working Together #Communicate
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
-- William Albert Allard

#Photography #Simplicity #Important
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
-- William Albert Allard

#Spiritual #Culture #Photographer
I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.
-- William Albert Allard

#Believe #Knowing #Special
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
-- William Albert Allard

#Photography #Color #Inseparable
All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
-- William Albert Allard

#Eye #Personality #Brain

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