Browsing Topic Best Photography Quotes

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Because I know war… because I know the horror, I don’t want to add to it. After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

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

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.

A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said ‘I love your pictures – they’re wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.’ He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: ‘That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

Photography… unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal – the border between what we see and what we suspect.

The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss ideas. You research the characters and figure out the components of their look through your own vision. You create a color palette for a film, television or stage medium and discuss it with the director of photography who then lights your colored subjects.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

…one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white… in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done – mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

It is every photographer’s responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you’re a moron, you’re going to get a really strong photograph.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Predators and prey always coexist. That’s why we have galleries as well as photographers.

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

I think that’s necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that’s out there – and that’s true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it’s easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.

Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.

Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography – that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.