On Photography Quotes

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

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

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

It's always around. You just don't see it.

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed that determines his personal style.

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

I never really learned photography.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.