1,962 Quotes About Photography

I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Of course it's all luck.