106 Quotes About Photographs

It is both rare and amazing to find very few photographs that survive.

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!

I've always found old bookstores exciting. Whenever I'm in a city that's new to me, I immedicately look through the telephone directory for BOOKS, USED AND RARE. Book dealers send me their catalogs, and I read them as carefully as I would a letter from an old friend, never knowing what treasure I might find. Sometimes the catalogs contain printed material other than books, such as old photographs, newspapers, pamphlets, postcards, and letters.

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be.

Every photograph posed itself this one question: Are we allowed to view what is being exposed?

I have learned that the camera is, as is often said, a powerful weapon. And the wielder of that weapon can be perceived as dominating and threatening, even if that is not his or her intent.

Photography is inspired by beauty, captured with passion.