1,962 Quotes About Photography

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.