Quotes About Photography

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

When I'm taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.