On Photography Quotes

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

Photography threatens fantasy.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography.

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

Do we know what we look like? Not really.

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.

News photography teaches you to think fast.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

When you're taking photographs of people, creating the “perfect scenery” is always secondary. It's much more important to capture the emotions. Especially when there's true love.

My selfie my life!

No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!

My life my selfie!

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!

Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!