Quotes About Photography

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.