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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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