Quotes About Photography

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and places I have been able to see through this experience.

I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.

I never understood why people take pictures of themselves giving the finger. Was the camera mean to you?

Yeah. And don't worry, this time she won't forget to put film in the camera.

That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.

said. 'Get my camera, would you?

The most beautiful images are often the least honest.

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Tessa's final photo was different from the rest. It was a close-up of her face. In color. She had taken it at the Empyrean Hotel, on the night she first saw Skylar's spirit. But of the hundreds of people looking at this photo, only Tessa knew the tiny glint in her eyes was the reflection of a ghost—the ghost of a boy who loved her so much that he had crossed the boundary of life and death to be with her one last time.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Pleasure in this respect is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative film; we develop it later, when we are at home, and have once again found at our disposal that inner darkroom, the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people.

But so far as the pleasure was concerned, I was naturally not conscious of it until some time later, when, back at the hotel, and in my room alone, I had become myself again. Pleasure in this respect is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative, which we develop later, when we are back at home, and have once again found at our disposal that inner dark-room the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people.

Photography acquires a certain dignity, which it does not normally have, when it is not just a reproduction of reality but can show us things that no longer exist.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.