On Photography Quotes

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

The camera is the least important element in photography.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

All photography is propaganda.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?