Quotes About Photography

I'm an average photographer with a great God.

Your photo of the Eiffel Tower on Flickr is identically redundant to the millions already stored on Flickr, yet you keep on snapping them (just as I keep downloading MP3s).

The best storytellers eliminate photographs before they even begin shooting. They pre-edit. They determine what isn't worth their effort to free up their time for the things that may prove to be remarkable.

Life happens between frames. If you don't put down the camera to experience your subject, how can you bring anything uniquely personal to the story? Great photography is just great storytelling. Great storytelling evolves from a life well lived. Live first.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things. But there are no postcards of this. Of life.

Siento como si la imagen que he creado de Willem está viva en el cuarto. Él había tenido razón en cuanto a no necesitar una cámara para grabar los momentos importantes. Él había estado dentro de mí todo este tiempo

Adoram fotografiile alea. Intotdeauna iti taiau capul pe jumatate sau erau intunecate de degetul cuiva, dar pareau sa prinda ceva veritabil.

I'm sorry," she said softly. "Even if you'd looked like you were born downwind of an outhouse, I would have snapped a thousand photos of you. And then used those photos to blackmail you later, but my reasons are inconsequential.

In photography there is no meantime. There was just that moment and now there's this moment and in between there is nothing. Photography, in a way, is the negation of chronology.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

You press the button, we do the rest.

Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother. "What?" "She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!" "Take a picture for me," Grandma said.

Photography is a strange phenomenon ... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

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.

Francisco encontró en esos sencillos elementos un profundo sentido estético y decidió que más tarde tomaría algunas fotografías para su colección. Nunca pudo hacerlo

L'essenziale è spesso invisibile; è solo il cuore, e non l'occhio, a poterlo cogliere, ma la macchina fotografica a volte sfiora tracce di quella sostanza.

Nathaniel Belasco had photographed his wife between 1977 and 1983, using one of the first twenty-by-twenty-four Polaroids capable of capturing the tiniest details with the utmost precision.

La memoria è invenzione. Selezioniamo il materiale più brillante e quello più buio, ignorando ciò che è fonte di vergogna, e così tessiamo il grande arazzo della nostra vita. Per mezzo della fotografia e della parola scritta cerco disperatamente di sconfiggere la fuggevolezza della mia vita, di catturare gli attimi prima che svaniscano, di rischiarare la confusione del mio passato.

El espejo, como las fotografías, era un enemigo inclemente, porque la mostraban inmóvil con sus defectos expuestos sin atenuante.

Tu piensas en palabras,para ti el lenguaje es un hilo inagotable que tejes como si la vida se hiciera al contarla. Yo pienso en imágenes congeladas en una fotografía.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.