Photography Quotes

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is b...

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the de...

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

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures...

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people...

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Stirton's work, he says, is now all about investigation. 'You literally are trying to find out what'...

What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that...

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be it...

Photography helps people to see.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to b...

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at y...

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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

It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and ...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the e...

We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White f...

What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it diff...

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it...

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes ...

Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for th...

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seat...

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and sk...

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy t...

In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a ...

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with...

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still...

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, ...

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is...

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organiz...

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance o...

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no...

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reali...

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the di...

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and trans...

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the in...

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's...

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us...

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative len...

Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi...

You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you a...

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has give...

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly bec...

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them.

Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work...

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty m...

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to repro...

Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-...

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBurst...

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence t...

Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed...

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to ...

The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the finger...

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through cons...

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so ...

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to mani...

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every...

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and k...

He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens...

If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times...

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close y...

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably mu...

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorou...

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography correspond...

What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a ch...

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not ...

I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through th...