Photography And Life Quotes

Photography And Life Quotes & Sayings

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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — Nan Goldin

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning — Ruth Bernhard

Photography ... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919) — Paul Strand

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything. — Anton Corbijn

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. — Josef Sudek

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. — Dorothea Lange

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second. — Marc Riboud

Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence. — Eadweard Muybridge

No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page. — M.G. Vassanji

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life. — Jamel Shabazz

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

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. — David Sedaris

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference — Robert Frank

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace. — Cornell Capa

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one. — Keith Carter

I get so confused about life photography art. — William Wegman

Essentially what photography is is life lit up. — Sam Abell

Photography is a very important part of my life. — Conrad Hall

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. — Brigitte Bardot

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! — John Sexton

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg. — Sebastiao Salgado

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me. — Edward Weston

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential. — Ruth Bernhard

I have gradually confused photography with life. — Jerry Uelsmann

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. — Wallace Stevens

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You just have to live and life will give you pictures. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. — David Hurn

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death. — John Berger

Photography has saved my life, over and over again. — Laurel Nakadate

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

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography. — Richard Kalvar

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me. — Minor White

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings. — Auguste Rodin

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. — Paul Strand

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life. — Keith Carter

If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life. — Alec Soth

Be in love with the moments of your life. — Matthew Knisely

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works. — Buzz Osborne

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

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. — Wynn Bullock

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. — Marc Riboud

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

What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word. — T.A

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

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life. — Sebastiao Salgado

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me. — Drew Barrymore

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either. — Harry Callahan

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, If you want something to look interesting, don't light all of it. — Joe McNally

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

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture. — Lisette Model

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. — Aleksandar Hemon

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important. — Paul Strand

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

As long as we're alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we'll have something to say. — David DuChemin

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens. — Lamar Giles

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible. — Sameh Talhamy

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken. — Katja Michael

Photography is a love affair with life. — Burk Uzzle

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry

Life is once. Forever. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. — Matthew Knisely

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly. — Emmet Gowin

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. — Matthew Knisely

Modern life is no longer thinkable without photography. — Albert Renger-Patzsch