Photography Quotes

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

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

Pablo Picasso

Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.

Susan Sontag

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Susan Sontag

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Brooks Atkinson

You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Diane Arbus

If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

Susan Sontag

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

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

Pablo Picasso

Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.

Susan Sontag

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Susan Sontag

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Brooks Atkinson

You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Diane Arbus

If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

Susan Sontag

Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies.Sutton laughs.What’s funny? Photographer says.Nothing. Except—that’s pure horseshit kid. I can’t think of anything that lies more than a photo. In fact every photo is a dirty stinking lie because it’s a frozen moment—and time can’t be frozen. Some of the biggest lies I’ve ever run across have been photos. Some of them were of me.

J.R. Moehringer

With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.

Harold Davis

My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.

Devin Dygert

It’s the difference between your wife’s passport photograph and the portraits you took when you gotengaged. Both may have been created with similar technology, but what stands in that great gulf between them are the passion you have for your wife, the knowledge you have of her personality, and your willingness to use your craft, time, and energy to express that. One says, “She looks like this.” The other says, “This is who she is to me. It’s how I feel about her. See how amazing she is?

David duChemin

Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.

Whitney Otto

If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.

Whitney Otto

Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium.

Whitney Otto

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are likeapplause.

A.K. Nicholas

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph.

Rosanne Moreland

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Susan Sontag

I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me: a photo of a beaten, weathered hull of a rowboat. I knew about as much about boats as I did photography, which was next to nothing, but that boat wasn’t going anywhere near the water anytime soon unless the owner decided it would make a mediocre shipwreck to explore while scuba diving. Nevertheless, it faced the out-of-focus lake in the background, almost hopefully, as if it hadn’t yet decided its best days were gone, as if it still dreamed of bobbing peacefully on the waves.“Does that one have a name?” I asked.She smiled. “Seaworthy.

Leesa Freeman

...if we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his cameras by mule, and the person stepping out of his car to take a picture with an Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.

Robert Adams

I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial clothing, fabric accents, accessories, lighting, etc.

A.K. Nicholas

This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals.

William A. Ewing

So, what do you photograph?”I swallow my wine.“What?”“You know – city scapes, nature, portraits, candid shots...”Boobs. I photograph boobs.“Uhh... people?

Iris Blaire

Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can.

Chanaka Satharasinghe.

With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait.

Søren Kierkegaard

The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

Harry Callahan

This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.

Jane Alison

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

David Alan Harvey

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?

Francesca Woodman

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

David duChemin

What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.

T.A

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Margaret Bourke-White

Photography helps people to see.

Berenice Abbott

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

Dara McGrath

I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of Thetford, taken in 1868, in which William Smith is not. The street is empty. There is a grocer's shop and a blacksmith's and a stationary cart and a great spreading tree, but not a single human figure. In fact William Smith - or someone, or several people, dogs too, geese, a man on a horse - passed beneath the tree, went into the grocer's shop, loitered for a moment talking to a friend while the photograph was taken but he is invisible, all of them are invisible. The exposure of the photograph - sixty minutes - was so long that William Smith and everyone else passed through it and away leaving no trace. Not even so much of a mark as those primordial worms that passed through the Cambrian mud of northern Scotland and left the empty tube of their passage in the rock.I like that. I like that very much. A neat image for the relation of man to the physical world. Gone, passed through and away.

Penelope Lively

A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

David duChemin

I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them.

Aurélien Roulland

What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share it with everyone and share it with future generations. But theirs is also the sense of Secrets of the picture, or the stuff you don’t know, or don’t see. You don’t really know what happened before or after a picture its like time is just frozen in that moment.

Jesús Holguin

What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.

Don DeLillo

Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.

Solita

Looking into the mirror I ask myself:"You live in a house equipped with air conditioning.You eat tasty food.You utilize convenient transportation to travel.You utilize convenient information technology to live.Could you not say that you, who do all this, are not a dictator?Isn't it right that you life is supported by somebody else's death?Doesn't your life that exists at the expense of somebody else's sacrifice infinitely resemble the life of a dictator who only cares about his own life?"-Yasumasa Morimura (excerpt from "Mr. Morimura's Dictator Speech").

Marinella Venanzi

There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.

Joel Sartore

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.

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