1,962 Quotes About Photography

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

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

When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.

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.

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.