Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Steiner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Ralph Steiner.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Ralph Steiner was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.

American - Photographer | February 8, 1899 - July 13, 1986

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By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.

Ralph Steiner

These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.

Ralph Steiner

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

Ralph Steiner

Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.

Ralph Steiner

Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

Ralph Steiner

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Steiner

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