Photography Quotes - Page 3

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Irving Penn

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.

Anthony Farrimond

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

Leonard Nimoy

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

Luhraw

They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn't shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust.

Liz Welch

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.

Jay Maisel

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

Susana Fortes

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman

Looking at Loh’s photographs, it is obvious that there is nothing simpler and richer than a face when stripped of all effects and affects, poses and postures, stances and pretences. The Singaporeans featured here are almostexpressionless, as if the photographer wanted to leave us clueless about them. What do their faces tell us? Why are they so familiar? Why do we feel we know this auntie that we don’t know? And this guy with the nondescript look? And this girl with no distinguishing mark? Have we met before?

Raphael Millet

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.

Raphael Millet

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Luhraw

Photography is not something you retire from.

Annie Leibovitz

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

A.S. King

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.

Annie Leibovitz

The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...

Miguel Syjuco

In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not the classical beauty of symmetry and exact proportions or the fancy of fashion, which is ever-changing with the seasons, but the beauty of a soul, that inner life that reveals itself so seldom, just for an instant, and only if you look closely and learn to see with an open heart.

Elizabeth Ross

If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.

Anonymous

She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.

Tommy Wallach

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.

Katja Michael

Photographers are the history makers, because every picture is a moment which gone fore ever and can not be re shoot.”― Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

The captain was amusing. He said that he himself couldn't draw and proved his words by drawing his own house for his prisoner to see. It was just such a house as the babies drew in the kindergarten: a square box with four square windows, a door and two chimneys, each with a neat curl of smoke. "That's best I can do," said the Captain, laughing.Max laughed with him for politeness' sake, though inwardly he was shocked that an important man like the Captain made a fool of himself. "Vater does not draw," he said kindly, "nor does Mutti; but they are both very keen on photography. Perhaps you are good at that?""Not brilliant," said the Captain.

Constance Savery

Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.

A.J. Compton

He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.

Terry Pratchett

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

Ramana Pemmaraju

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune.

Susan Sontag

Starting a new chapter is much like composing the perfect photograph. You must ensure the proper components are there. You may throw out the extra, but with out the key elements the story goes untold.

Faith Tilley Johnson

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

Sontag

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A good selfie is when you successfully capture the feeling of that very moment!

Anamika Mishra

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

Susan Sontag

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

David B. Lentz

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

Farid F. Ibrahim

It is not enough for the Jew to rest content with his own spiritual ascent, the elevation of his soul in closeness to G-d, he must strive to draw spirituality down into the world and into every part of it – the world of his work and his social life – until not only do they not distract him from his pursuit of G-d, but they become a full part of it.

(R. Menachem M. Schneerson)

A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck....life is just fine

sunny-drunk

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

Matt Hardy

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities. It's not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone, but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war- to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

Lynsey Addario

If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times I remain with it? I look at it, I scrutinize it, as if I wanted to know more about the thing or the person it represents... I want to outline the loved face by thought, to make it into the unique field of an intense observation; I want to enlarge this face in order to see it better, to understand it better, to know its truth.

Roland Barthes

There had to be something new, some fresh angle. As the rain pattered down around him, Kapenda thought. What was the weirdest thing he'd seen since this all started? He'd been in the tiny town of Chew Stoke a few weeks earlier, filming the remains of a vehicle that had been washed into a culvert and whose driver had died. In Grovehill, no one had died yet but there were abandoned cars strewn along the streets and surrounding tracks, hulking shapes that the water broke around and flowed over in fractured, churning flurries.That was old. Every television station had those shots.He'd been there the year before when the police had excavated a mud-filled railway tunnel and uncovered the remains of two people who had been crushed in a landslide. What they needed was something like that here, something that showed how weak man's civilized veneer was when set against nature's uncaring ferocity. He needed something that contrasted human frailty and natural strength, something that Dali might have painted - a boat on a roof, or a shark swimming up the main street. He needed that bloody house to collapse.("Into The Water")

Simon Kurt Unsworth

It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it.

David Sedaris

Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Photographs shape the past in our own image.

Chloe Thurlow

Life is likephotography we develop from the negatives

unkowen

When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett

Samuel Beckett

And for the world's orphans. A portion of this book's proceeds will go to you.

Stacy Wasmuth

As Marcel Proust understood, memory is not exclusively or even predominantly visual. It is synesthetic, a combination and even a confusion of the senses that no simple image can reach or encapsulate. A photograph can act as a spur to memory, it can yield treasures, like looking under your bed and finding the baseball card you were certain you lost. But an image stands mute before the inexpressible delicacy, horror, humor, and associative complexity of our experience.

Will Steacy

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

Marius Vieth

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

Destin Sparks

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work

Betty Poluk

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

Sebastião Salgado

do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free

Betty Poluk

Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I take same picture twice, First with my heart then camera.

Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.

Joyce Wycoff

remember... the picture should tell a story in itself, and should have a spontaneous approach

Betty Poluk

Any moment which is not captured is loss in events of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My best photo will be the last one, that I want to be taken.

Biju Karakkonam

Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph

Ronald Barthes

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. "We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . . . the artistic thrust of his photography always had more to do with its emotional pitch, which remained genuine and deeply felt." Or, in Capa's own words, a great picture "is a cut out of the whole event which will show more of the real truth of the affair to some one who was not there than the whole scene.

John Steinbeck

You keep doing that and your camera is likely to explode.”“Are you crazy?” Alfred smirked. “My camera is like me.” “How so?” “It adores you,” Alfred told him.

Remmy Duchene

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