Photography Quotes - Page 2

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

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

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Realism without naturalism... is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the struggle to perfect the reflection of Nature in Art's mirror, which I attribute to the all-pervading effects of photography...You must serve the tradition without being its slave. Remember you are an artist, not a draughtsman.

art is risk made visible

To me, the world and art of photography is to capture emotion, feelings and moments; and share it with the world.I master the art when I am capable of awaking emotion in other people through my images.

If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share it with everyone and share it with future generations. But theirs is also the sense of Secrets of the picture, or the stuff you don’t know, or don’t see. You don’t really know what happened before or after a picture its like time is just frozen in that moment.

Some days you just get lucky… Other days you wait patiently for luck to happen

You are responsible for every element within the frame.

To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to giveyoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning orlosing. Just DO.

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.

A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook.An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.A foolgrapher show off his camera and how he holds it, on facebook.

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

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

No, I don't work here, I'm taking pictures of messy bathrooms for a photo essay on the American West. But I'm always up for clean, so if you want to pitch in, I've got Pine Sol and a sponge in my car... It's that VW microbus parked next to the dumpster, and you don't need a key, just pull hard.

Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists is to teach me how they see. To learn how I see is somethig that cannot be taught but must be learned.

Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge.

He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

Walking the streets with camera in hand is akin to being on a treasure hunt as a child.

I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of this mortiferous power: certain Communards paid with their lives for their willingness or even their eagerness to pose on the barricades: defeated, they were recognized by Thiers's police and shot, almost every one).

A photograph is the pause button on life.

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

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.

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?

When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.

Through photography and image I have been afforded the privilege of sharing the stories and myths of people's lives with others. The process for me became self-revelatory. It was a process of soul-making, something all humans are engaged in, no matter their endeavor. I saw a part of myself in each person I photographed. I came to realize, through the alchemical process of living, that each life is important, no matter how little that life seems to offer.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

Photography is not about costly cameras'. It's about your huge passion and little interest in innovation.

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That's something I want to see again. In terms of the tone of the film, it looks at where we are as a people and has a universality about human experience.

Photography is all about the perspective!

Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory.

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph.

A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

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

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

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.

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

As long as we’re alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we’ll have something to say.

All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs.

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

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?

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