Quotes About Photography

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life look much richer from behind the lens.

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.