Quotes About Photography

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

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

Our pictures are our footprints. It's the best way to tell people we were here.

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.