106 Quotes About Photographs

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

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.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

الوجه البشري كالشلال يتغير كل لحظة .. في ربع ثانية تجد ملاكا أو وحشا أو حلوفا .. لهذا غالبا ما تكون الصور الثابتة أقبح من الطبيعة لأنها إقتنصت لحظم من عشرات اللحظات

I was always the kind of person who hated to have her photograph taken, dreading that instant when the camera might catch me looking stupid or at a bad angle, reduced to one version of myself, someone thinking that's all I am. Something like death in a photo. A stranger might pick it up, and to them that's all you'll ever be, this moment you had no control over, that had no before and no afterward.

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.