1,962 Quotes About Photography

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it— say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken—or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be.

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a button. A few hours later and half a world away, some dots of ink on a news print showed what he had seen-and had the power to touch peoples emotions, perhaps to change their way of thinking.

There will never be a photograph of the Grand Canyon that can adequately describe its depth, breadth, and true beauty.

A smile is like a blush. It is a response, not an expression per se, and so it can neither be easily maintained nor easily recorded.