Quotes About Photography

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?

Mom used to say that a picture wasn't worth anything if it didn't produce a reaction, that it takes talent to capture feeling with an image.

She loved the permanence of film, how you couldn't just delete an image and try again.

I was reminded of how much I love photography. The chance to capture a moment of time, forever.

We've already taken a hundred pictures today, and we'll take hundreds more, but I know this one will be my favorite.

Let's take a selfie." "We can't; our phones are dead, remember? We'll just have to have the memory in our hearts like the old days.

There is a picture of my mother holding me as a baby, a look of naked love on her face. For years, it embarrassed me. Now there is a picture of me with my daughter looking exactly the same way.

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say. That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

It is important to be on the alert for "the decisive moment," says the man next to me who is talking to his date. I agree. The only difference is that he is talking about twentieth-century photography and I am talking about twenty-first-century everything.

It is important to be on the alert for "the decisive moment," says the man next to me who is talking to his date. I agree. The only difference is that he is talking about twentieth-century photography and I am talking about twenty-first-century everything.