Photography Quotes

do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free

~ Betty Poluk

Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.

~ Joyce Wycoff

remember... the picture should tell a story in itself, and should have a spontaneous approach

~ Betty Poluk

Any moment which is not captured is loss in events of time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My best photo will be the last one, that I want to be taken.

~ Biju Karakkonam

She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.

~ Tommy Wallach

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.

~ Katja Michael

Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.

~ A.j. Compton

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune.

~ Susan Sontag

Starting a new chapter is much like composing the perfect photograph. You must ensure the proper components are there. You may throw out the extra, but with out the key elements the story goes untold.

~ Faith Tilley Johnson

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

~ Sontag

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

~ David B. Lentz

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

~ Farid F. Ibrahim

It is not enough for the Jew to rest content with his own spiritual ascent, the elevation of his soul in closeness to G-d, he must strive to draw spirituality down into the world and into every part of it – the world of his work and his social life – until not only do they not distract him from his pursuit of G-d, but they become a full part of it.

~ (R. Menachem M. Schneerson)

A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck....life is just fine

~ Sunny-Drunk

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

~ Matt Hardy

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities. It's not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone, but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war- to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

~ Lynsey Addario

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

~ Luhraw

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.

~ Arnold Newman

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.

~ Anthony Farrimond

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

~ Leonard Nimoy

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

~ Luhraw

They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn't shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust.

~ Liz Welch

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

~ Susana Fortes

Looking at Loh’s photographs, it is obvious that there is nothing simpler and richer than a face when stripped of all effects and affects, poses and postures, stances and pretences. The Singaporeans featured here are almostexpressionless, as if the photographer wanted to leave us clueless about them. What do their faces tell us? Why are they so familiar? Why do we feel we know this auntie that we don’t know? And this guy with the nondescript look? And this girl with no distinguishing mark? Have we met before?

~ Raphael Millet

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.

~ Raphael Millet

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

~ Luhraw

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

~ A.s. King

The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor of patience...

~ Miguel Syjuco

In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not the classical beauty of symmetry and exact proportions or the fancy of fashion, which is ever-changing with the seasons, but the beauty of a soul, that inner life that reveals itself so seldom, just for an instant, and only if you look closely and learn to see with an open heart.

~ Elizabeth Ross

In the context of photography , there was a luck.But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.

~ Adithya Zen

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.

~ Susan Sontag

Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.

~ Dragan Tapshanov

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

~ Gayle Forman

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.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

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

~ Paul Chaplo

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

~ Deeksha Mittal