1,962 Quotes About Photography

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.