1,962 Quotes About Photography

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.