Photography Quotes

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

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Fotografi mengajarkan pada kita cara yang unik dalam melihat dunia dan sekaligus memberikan penyadaran baru akan segala keindahan yang ada di sekitar kita.

Deniek G. Sukarya

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

Criss Jami

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Valaida Fullwood

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

Eliot Porter

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

George Bernard Shaw

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Robert Doisneau

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

Marc Riboud

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Adams

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

Annie Leibovitz

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Robert Doisneau

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Johann von Goethe

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

Jodi Picoult

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Minor White

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

Minor White

The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.

Peter Conrad