Quotes by Photographers

sing so loud that the musicdrowns out the sounds ofthe naysayers.one day they’ll be singingyour song.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
Teju Cole
I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.
Eudora Welty
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
Dorothea Lange
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
Diane Arbus
The more specific you are the more general it'll be.
Diane Arbus
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.
Edwin Way Teale
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
Edwin Way Teale
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time but a filling of time with God.
John Foster
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with you will not do much.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Edwin Way Teale
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.
Margaret Bourke-White
The true snob never rests there is always a higher goal to attain and there are by the same token always more and more people to look down upon.
Russell Lynes
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow the mother washing her baby the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side we overintel-lectualize everything on the other hand we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.
Edward Steichen
To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.
Joanna T. Steichen
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty
All serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.
Diane Arbus
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most I shot.
Ernst Haas
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
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus
You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
Diane Arbus
Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most I shot.
Ernst Haas
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
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus
You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
Diane Arbus
Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
For the mind disturbed the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Eudora Welty
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
Margaret Bourke-White
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
The purpose of life is life.
Karl Lagerfeld
Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.
Eudora Welty
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Edwin Way Teale
Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.
John Foster
In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Edwin Way Teale
Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
Berenice Abbott
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Cecil Beaton
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
Eduard Weston
An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
Cecil Beaton
When you learn not to want things so badly life comes to you.
Jessica Lange
Happiness is a beautiful fruit that tastes of cruelty.
Agnes Varda
All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.
Rawi Hage
Late fees are the enemy of early literacy because instead of promoting responsible behavior, they suppress library visits for some of the people who need the institution the most. And of course these fees don't promote children being more responsible, but only reveal to children how irresponsible, ignorant, or unaware their own parents are. -- Amy Dickinson
Kyle Cassidy
Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman
Kyle Cassidy
Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.
Eudora Welty
I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
Teju Cole