Photography Quotes

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...

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-rep...

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial...

Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the ...

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vu...

...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1...

I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of thi...

It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political te...

The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first phot...

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fi...

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster ...

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated th...

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: ...

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it mus...

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed...

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it repr...

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a fam...

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it rep...

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to...

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas to...

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whethe...

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photogr...

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thi...

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchange...

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which ...

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us ...

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

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

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemu...

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having know...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Al...

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorpho...

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an eco...

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photograp...

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel...

With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the p...

He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman ...

Realism without naturalism... is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the strugg...

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are m...

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' W...

Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is n...

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus it...

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing somet...

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorpor...

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

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...