1,962 Quotes About Photography

This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone.

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs—especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past—are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the eroticfeelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.

When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!

There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was

If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.

When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.