Quotes About Photography

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to.

To make a photo from what we see is easy, but to create a realistic photo and show others what we have in our mind is a completely different story.

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

There, behind the eye of the camera, I was truly at peace.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

A fotografia quieta vai suplantando a cara real, com os seus gestos e o seu movimento, as feições congelam e passam a existir apenas as do instantâneo, que de tanto olhado substitui a pessoa e a apaga ou a desterra ou expulsa, por isso custa tanto recordar verdadeiramente os mortos que se afastam de nós.

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man's face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It's the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way

Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it. They can look at the picture and remind themselves.

I don't keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don't travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper mines.