Photography Quotes

Quotes
The question is not what you look at, but what you see. - Henry Thoreau

There are 3 key things for good photography: the camera, lighting and... photoshop - Tyra Banks

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

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears. - Paul Cezanne

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. - Salvador Dali

The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘"That’s nice." It’s the kiss of death. - Joe DiMaggio

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.- Ansel Adams


When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

One day, one second, I might close the shutter on the perfect photograph. There was always the chance, so long as there was film in the camera. - Robert Goddard,

The most important lens you have is your legs. - Ernst Haas

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. - Ernst Haas

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. - Ernst Haas

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. - Annie Leibovitz

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. - Annie Leibovitz

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child. - Henri Matisse

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. - Henri Matisse

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. - Pablo Picasso

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Photography is our means of capturing now - and to remember where we've come from. - Amanda Van

Film is what you find on your teeth when you wake up in the morning. - Vincent Versace

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button. - Andy Warhol

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. - Andy Warhol

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. - Orson Welles

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. - Orson Welles,

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. - Stephen Wright

A camera didn't make a great picture anymore than a typewriter wrote a great novel. Peter Adams

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