Photography Quotes

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy t...

In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a ...

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with...

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still...

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, ...

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is...

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organiz...

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance o...

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.

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

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no...

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reali...

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the di...

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and trans...

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the in...

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's...

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us...

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative len...

Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi...

You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you a...

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has give...

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly bec...

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

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

Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them.

Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work...

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty m...

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to repro...

Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-...

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBurst...

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence t...

Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed...

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to ...

The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the finger...

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through cons...

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so ...

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

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to mani...

Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every...

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and k...

He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens...

If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times...

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close y...

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

Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably mu...

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorou...

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography correspond...

What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a ch...

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not ...

I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through th...

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-rep...

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial...

Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the ...

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vu...

...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1...

I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of thi...

It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political te...

The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first phot...

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fi...

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster ...

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated th...

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: ...

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it mus...

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed...

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it repr...

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a fam...

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it rep...

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to...

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas to...

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whethe...

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photogr...

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

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thi...

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchange...

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which ...

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us ...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemu...

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having know...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.