Quotes About Photography

Why are there no "during" pictures?

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.

A photograph is the best split-second decision one can make!

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.