1,962 Quotes About Photography

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

We tell stories using light. We tell stories using shadows. That's it.

Buying a new camera "because it takes great photos" is like buying a paint brush "because it paints great paintings." The REAL key is learning how to USE your camera to create great images.

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.