Quotes About Photography

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic.

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

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

The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!

Just so everyone knows, we're not a photo-sharing company. I don't see photos on 'Instagram' as art. They're much more about communication.

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

And what other advances does the future hold, technology-wise? Even as you read these words, white-coated laboratory geeks are working on a revolutionary new camera that not only will focus automatically, set the exposure automatically, flash automatically, and advance the film automatically, but will also automatically refuse to take stupid pictures, such as of the wing out the airplane window.

You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer.

She points at my chest. "And much more interestingly, what's that?" "Blood," I say. She gets her camera out.

The Tableaux were simply high-quality transmission-ready photographs, scaled down to diorama-like proportions and fitted with a plastic holder over the videophone camera, not unlike a lens-cap. Extremely good-looking but not terrifically successfully entertainment-celebrities - the same sort who in decades past would have swelled the cast-lists of infomercials - found themselves in demand as models for various high-end videophone Tableaux.

Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators.

Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

It was the doomed competition with photography that had led painting to lose its ways in the mindless transcription of reality. Admittedly the scorn for realism had been a traditional theme of premodern art theory, often mapped onto onto a geographic distinction. The direct imitation of reality was the northern European weakness, a limitation to be countered by an idealism cultivated in the Mediterranean realm.

God's camera takes snapshots that don't fall into your hand like Polaroids do. They pop right into your head and stay there forever.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

Quiero escribirte como quien aprende. Fotografío cada instante. Profundizo en las palabras como si pintase, más que un objeto, su sombra. No quiero preguntar por qué se puede preguntar siempre por qué y seguir siempre sin respuesta: ¿consigo entregarme al expectante silencio que sigue a una pregunta sin respuesta? Aunque adivino que en algún lugar o en algún tiempo existe la gran respuesta para mí.

O fato é um ato? Juro que este livro é feito sem palavras. É uma fotografia muda. Este livro é um silêncio. Este livro é uma pergunta.

I never met a model I didn't like," says Nick Laws in The Shallow Man (The Dolce Vita Press, 2010/thedolcevitapress.com)

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.