Best Photography Quotes
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Best Photography Quotes & Sayings
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Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
— Shannon L. Alder
Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.
— Henry Wessel Jr.
I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
— Andrew Zuckerman
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
— John Szarkowski
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.
— Katja Michael
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.
— George A Tice
Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
— David Doubilet
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
— Rosie O'Donnell
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
— Edward Weston
My father did advertising photography.
— Andreas Gursky
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
— Paul Theroux
Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
— Thomas Ruff
Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
— Rebecca McNutt
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
— Garry Winogrand
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.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
— William Eggleston
Our best pictures happen by grace.
— Joyce Tenneson
The best photographs are made by the best people.
— Morley Baer
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.
— Ellen Von Unwerth
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
— W. Eugene Smith
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
— Helena Christensen
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
— Edward Weston
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
— Garry Winogrand
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
— Steve McCurry
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
— Eric Clapton
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.
— Graciela Iturbide
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
— Duane Michals
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
— Wynn Bullock
Sharpness is overrated.
— Keith Carter
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
— Minor White
Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
The best zoom lens is your legs.
— Ernst Haas
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
— Dorothea Lange
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
— Donatella Versace
Photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
— Andy Grundberg
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
— Paul Caponigro
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
— Trent Parke
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
— Ralph Steiner
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
— Andreas Feininger
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
— Georges Didi-Huberman
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.
— William Albert Allard
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
— Pablo Picasso
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.
— Georgia May Jagger
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
— Francesca Woodman
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
— Wynn Bullock
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.
— Michael Kenna
The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
— Catherine Opie
