Photography Quotes


Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Berenice Abbott Photography 159
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. Tony Benn Photography 131
Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Susan Sontag Photography 118
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second. Marc Riboud Photography 103
The photographic image... is a message without a code. Roland Barthes Photography 100
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. John Berger Photography 100
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. Dorothea Lange Photography 98
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. Norman Mailer Photography 95
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. Walter Benjamin Photography 95
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag Photography 92
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. Eliot Porter Photography 87
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. John Berger Photography 87
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? Paul Gauguin Photography 85
A photographer is like a cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. George Bernard Shaw Photography 84
Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is. William Leith Photography 83
Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you dont want to see dont want to know about dont want to get involved. Oliviero Toscani Photography 83
Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. Kim Edwards Photography 80
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. Henri CartierBresson Photography 80
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. Elliot Erwitt Photography 77
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking - and looking. Brooks Atkinson Photography 74
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams Photography 73
A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a thousands clicks away and a better one a million clicks away Kowtham Kumar K Photography 73
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White Photography 72
Later Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder as if the photograph had finally found her. Whitney Otto Photography 71
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons or things mortality vulnerability mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it all photographs testify to times relentless melt. Susan Sontag Photography 71
Photograph is a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne. Ambrose Pierce Photography 71
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Edvard Munch Photography 70
People look at ordinary stuff all day long so why not make a picture look extraordinary and give them something new to look at. Heath Bouffard Photography 69
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. John Steinbeck Photography 69
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. Susan Sontag Photography 69
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. Robert Doisneau Photography 67
I nearly believe you. The challenge remains extendedmake me believe you Benjamin Shermaine Williams Photography 67
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. Roland Barthes Photography 67
Dont pack up your camera until youve left the location. Joe McNally Photography 65
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. Unknown Photography 65
Life is not about significant details illuminated a flash fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag Photography 63
One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed. Diane Arbus Photography 61
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time -- this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. Jane Welsh Carlyle Photography 61
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Susan Sontag Photography 60
Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs Abhijeet Sawant Photography 55
For me the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. Diane Arbus Photography 55
Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference Robert Frank Photography 54
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus Photography 54
The key is to integrate our art into our life not the other way around. Brooks Jensen Photography 53
Photography helps people to see. Berenice Abbott Photography 53
A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances. Duane Michals Photography 52
If only I had thought of a Kodak I could have flashed that glimpse of the Underworld in a second and examined it at leisure. H.G. Wells Photography 51
The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world. Tynan Photography 51
I took some naked pictures the other day. I dont feel shamed but I do feel remorse over having to steal the whole camera to get the pictures. Jarod Kintz Photography 49
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal. John Dunning Photography 48

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