Photography Quotes

Photography helps people to see.

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

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

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

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

Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!

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

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.

Photography is my other kind of music.

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.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

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.

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!

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

He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can’t erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward.

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

I'm not constantly looking for the "right" in my thoughts. I am, actually, scared of absolute “rights”. Therefore, I don't think my book will appeal to people who seek concrete formulas from me to be happy and who have designed their lives mechanically. But I do believe my book can give something to people who live their lives going from information to information like a bee, who depend on their own syntheses as the outcomes and have flexible thought, and who could be an "individual".

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!

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

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

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

Photobomb me at your own risk!

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

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

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.

I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

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

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.

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.

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

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

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

A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a hundred clicks away and a better one, a thousand clicks away

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just have to open our eyes.

Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-violence of movies and television dwells on the lively acts of killing – flying kicks, roaring weapons, crashing cars, flaming explosions. These are the moral equivalents of old-time cinematic sex. The fictional spurting of gun muzzles after flirtation and seduction but stop a titillating instant short of actual copulation. The results of such aggressive vivacity remain a mystery. The corpse itself, riddled and gaping, swelling or dismembered, the action of heat and bacteria, of mummification or decay are the most illicit pornography.

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).

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

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

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

At age four I was a camera. I took pictures with my eyes. I framed my photo within my vision and blinked my eyes to snap the shutter of my memory. Since that time, I've been impersonating inanimate objects at every opportunity.

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.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

I often come across this question. "Which is the best camera in the world?". I would always say, "Well. You already own two of it, since your birth.

True photographs tend to remain on the streets, the story almost about to enter the edge of the frame of the snapshot or the shutter closing a moment too late, the story having just abandoned the frame.

Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

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

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.

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.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

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.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

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?