On Photography Quotes

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.

When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.

You don't study photography. You do it.

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

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

Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Photography is my only language.

The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

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

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

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.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

When I make a picture, I make love.

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

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

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

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