Photography Quotes
505 quotes
"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
"Telephone pole wires get in the way of great photos. Communication always gets in the way of communication."
"Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter."
"I can't throw away cologne because that is Nostalgia in a Bottle, the scent of yesterday, and it reminds me of her more clearly than her picture."
"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
"When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not."
"Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation."
"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."
"I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do you go?"
"Art is unpredictable."
"Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!"
"I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them."
"I nearly believe you. The challenge remains extended-make me believe you -- Benjamin"
"He'd never need a camera to remember this, and damn if he ever wanted anyone but him to see her like she was at this moment."
"art is risk made visible"
"Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado."
"It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult."
"Its not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer you must understand, appreciate and harness the power you hold!"
"Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!"
"When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer."
"[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography."
"A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings."
Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
"It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent."
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
"The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view."
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
"For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood."
"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
"If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera"
"A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order."
"I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery."
"Photographers don't take pictures. They create images."
"When you're taking photographs of people, creating the “perfect scenery” is always secondary. It's much more important to capture the emotions. Especially when there's true love."
"When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months after the exhibit, I dropped out of college, left my wife and began to write this book."
"My husband and I have always been good at creative visualization. Before we quit drugs and got married he’d place tabs of acid on his eyes to see things that weren't there. I'd lay blank sheets of photographic paper on the cornea of developing solution to conjure images. We'd always coaxed dreams from paper, and believed them."
Jalina Mhyana, Dreaming in Night Vision: A Story in Vignettes
"The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more."
"Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome."
"Beautiful women have a following all their own. If that sounds misogynistic, I’m sorry, that’s the way the world works. Homer said the Greeks went to war over a woman. I can’t get a battle, but I can get a few hundred thousand views with the right face in a skirt."
"Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life look much richer from behind the lens."
"As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind, they are wide open. Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary."
"A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know."
"What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce."
"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."
"It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down...."
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
"The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness"
"I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost."
"Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist."
"A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into."
"To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk."
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