1,962 Quotes About Photography

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.