1,962 Quotes About Photography

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Life is once. Forever.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines ...

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.