1,962 Quotes About Photography

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.