188 quotes found
“As a young person, and I know its hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with an...”
“Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is ma...”
“In the context of photography , there was a luck.But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.”
“Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.”
“Pictures can be pretty deceptive.”
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
“This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As ...”
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balanc...”
“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.To...”
“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have...”
“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" ...”
“There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneat...”
“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.”
“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”
“There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.”
“I also have to add that if Rembrandt had been given a camera then that guys understanding of light and form would have blown the rest of us shooters into a black hole of despair.”
“My pictures are about making people realize we've got to protect those who can't speak for themselves.”
